Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. ― Booker T. Washington

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Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

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We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

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To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.

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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

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