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«Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved»
Author: George Crabbe (Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: amiss, be amiss
«Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.»
«Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.»
Author: Henry Van Dyke (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | About: Chance, Life, Love | Keywords: glad, look up
«Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be;Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.A heart as soft, a heart as kind,A heart as sound and freeAs in the whole world thou canst find,That heart I'll give to thee.Bid that heart stay, and it will stayTo honour thy decree;Or bid it languish quite away,And't shall do so for thee.Bid me to weep, and I will weep,While I have eyes to see;And having none, yet I will keepA heart to weep for thee.Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en death, to die for thee.--Thou art my life, my love, my heart,The very eyes of me;And hast command of every part,To live and die for thee.»
Author: Robert Herrick | About: Love | Keywords: cypresses, Protestants
«Break my face, my back, my arms, my neck. But please don't break my heart.»
Author: Sarah Bettens | About: Love
«Brief is life but love is long.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | About: Life, Love | Keywords: brief
«Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.»
Author: E. E. Cummings | About: Love | Keywords: careful
«Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Love | Keywords: blessed, human soul, influence
«Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me»
Author: Toni Morrison (Editor, Teacher, Writer) | About: Love | Keywords: beloved, daughter, sister
«Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it (Proverbs 15:17).»
Author: Bible | About: Love | Keywords: fatten, fattened, fattening, fattens, herbs, ox, Proverbs, The Herbs