"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

Bacon, Francis on fame   

"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."

Bacon, Francis on fame   

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on love
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on friends and friendship
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"Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly."

Ginsberg, Louis on love   

"How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love."

Kempis, Thomas on love
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"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)"

Movie, Wizard of Oz on love
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"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever."

Horton, Doug on love
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"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."

Warhol, Andy on love
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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."

Connolly, Cyril on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."

France, Anatole on love
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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Brookner, Anita on love
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"Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe."

Hardenberg, Novalis on love
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"The only victory over love is flight."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on love
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

Hayes, Helen on love
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"Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give."

Oxenham, John on love
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"We pardon to the extent that we love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on forgiveness
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"He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer."

Shakespeare, William on flattery
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"One is very crazy when in love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on love
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"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Giovanni, Nikki on love
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"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on flattery
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."

Blake, William on eternity   

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

Francis De Sales, St. on action
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"I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity."

Sand, George on love
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"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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