There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Hospitality should have no other nature than love.
No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.
People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.
Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.
Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers-- She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly Dipping into the flowers of my heart.
I love to go to the schoolyard and watch the children jump and scream, but they don't know I'm using blanks.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again In babyhood.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.