There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Absence - that common cure of love.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.
I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
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