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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.


Jean Rostand
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Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
Apollonius of Tyana
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.


Edmund Burke
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.


Vincent Van Gogh
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Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Angie Stone
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People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.


Norman Vincent Peale
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Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
Alphonsus Liguori
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
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Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
Sada Thompson
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.


Barbara Jordan
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As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love and want to marry. I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.
Carrie Underwood
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.


Alex Comfort
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison
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Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.


Don Marquis
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.


William Hazlitt
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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.


Noel Coward
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.


Robert Frost
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
Nathaniel Branden
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