Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
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Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;_x000D_ _x000D_ But yet you draw not iron, for my heart_x000D_ _x000D_ Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,_x000D_ _x000D_ And I shall have no power to follow you.
Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.
You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.
Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
You have witchcraft in your lips
In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
Love hath made thee a tame snake
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
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