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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
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A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
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If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.
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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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Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
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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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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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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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Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
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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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Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.
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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.