No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Thomas BrowneRead
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
Interpretation
Love should be viewed with an open heart rather than critical scrutiny.
This quote emphasizes that true affection and love thrive in an environment of acceptance and understanding rather than being scrutinized or overly analyzed. By suggesting that love shouldn't be examined too closely, it highlights the importance of embracing the emotional experience of love without letting skepticism and excessive judgment interfere with its purity and essence.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a wedding speech to highlight the essence of love.
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse._x000D_ _x000D_ To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,_x000D_ _x000D_ As in a foundering ship.
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.
I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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