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Wisdom about love.
What people have learned about love the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Perfect love casteth out fear.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
A friend loveth at all times.
The great Tao (or way) is very level and easy; but people love the by-ways.
This is the very ecstasy of love.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
(The Tao) which originated all under the sky is to be considered as the mother of them all.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Let all your things be done with charity.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
Thus we may see, Who cleaves to fame Rejects what is more great; Who loves large stores Gives up the richer state.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense.
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).
These violent delights have violent ends.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
(Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things.
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue. (Then) appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Therefore the sage knows (these things) of himself, but does not parade (his knowledge); loves, but does not (appear to set a) value on, himself. And thus he puts the latter alternative away and makes choice of the former.
They do not love that do not show their love.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be entrusted with it.
One half of me is yours, the other half yours.