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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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Whereas in friendship, 'tis a general and universal fire, but temperate and equal, a constant established heat, all gentle and smooth, without poignancy or roughness.
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In love there is no first nor last!
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Otherwise, my dear wife, we shall seem discontented at the birth of our little daughter, if we consider our position before her birth as more perfect.
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intimacy is the full enjoyment of friendship, and most pleasant is companying with and spending the day with a friend
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Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
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Only love is motion and rest in one.
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The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.
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Their once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in extent, it becomes a thorough good understanding.
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If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
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We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
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Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
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Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.
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No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.