"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"

Southey, Robert on love   

"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die."

Southey, Robert on life
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"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."

Levant, Oscar on selfishness
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"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

Prudden, Bonnie on time   

"Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose."

Knowles, F. M. on marriage   

"The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past"

Unknown, Source on past   

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Frost, Robert on reason
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"Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting."

Unknown, Source on silence   

"He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone."

Allen, Fred A. on dream
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"You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?"

Python, Monty on friends and friendship
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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on hope
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"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness."

Cioran, E. M. on reason
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"Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

Bierce, Ambrose on beauty
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing."

Arnold, Sir Edwin on love   

"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms."

Hardy, Thomas on love
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"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."

Greer, Germaine on men
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."

Balzac, Honore De on marriage
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"Faults are beauties in a lovers eye."

Theocritus on faults
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"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

Euripides on love
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"Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love."

Terence on quarrels
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"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
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"A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted."

Rowland, Helen on husbands
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"What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love   

"One may survive distress, but not disgrace."

Proverb, Scottish on honor
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"He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive."

Kahn, Master on fights and fighting
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"Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

King, Stephen on enemies
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"In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage."

Unknown, Source on ignorance   

"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."

Hawking, Stephen on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand."

Allen, Fred A. on pride
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on love
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"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on love
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"It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on love
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"I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us"

Williamson, Marianne on love
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

Flack, Roberta on suffering
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"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."

Orwell, George on survival
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