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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

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A witty saying proves nothing.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.: Robert Hall
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.: Edgar Lee Masters
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Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.: E. R. Bulwer-Lytton, Last Words (1860)
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Method of Nature (1841)
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

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