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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills; to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Love supreme defies all sophistry. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good? - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I) 'Tis what I love determines how I love. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I) Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III) Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. - Duke Ellington For this is Love's nobility,-- Not to scatter bread and gold Goods and raiment bought and sold; But to hold fast his simple sense, And speak the speech of innocence, For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time. . . . The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden's eye. . . . The mysterious communication that is established across a house between two entire strangers, by this means moves all the springs of wonder. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Love, and you shall be loved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star,--she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above, His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cupido A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--First Series--Epigraph to Friendship Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Of Friendship All mankind love a lover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Of Love Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,-- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Initial, Demoniac and Celestial Love (st. 1) But one always returns to one's first loves. [Fr., Mais on revient toujours A ses premieres amours.] - quoted by Henri Etienne (Estienne), Joconde (act III, 1) Love's all in all to women. - Euripides When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. - Euripides Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. - Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis Displaying page 12 of 39 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
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