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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. (Alger William R.)
The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty. (Alger William R.)
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. (Alger William R.)
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Alger William R.)
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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all. (Alger William R.)
There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved. (Alger William R.)
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. (Alger William R.)
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! (Alger William R.)
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. (Alger William R.)
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone. (Alger William R.)
Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red. (Alger William R.)
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. (Alger William R.)
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. (Alger William R.)
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. (Alger William R.)
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. (Alger William R.)
If you wish to be loved; Love! (Alger William R.)
Love and stoplights can be cruel. (Alger William R.)
Every man loves what he is good at. (Alger William R.)
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. (Alger William R.)
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar] (Alger William R.)
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days. (Alger William R.)
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (Alger William R.)
Love is too young to know what conscience is. (Alger William R.)
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet. (Alger William R.)
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. (Alger William R.)
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