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title: "4 Obliged Love Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/we-are-obliged-to-love-one-another-we-are-not-strictly-bound-to-like/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [“We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/we-are-obliged-to-love-one-another-we-are-not-strictly-bound-to-like-2/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/we-are-obliged-to-love-one-another-we-are-not-strictly-bound-to-like-3/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-traherne/had-we-not-loved-ourselves-at-all-we-could-never-have-been-obliged-to/)

[Thomas Traherne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-traherne/)

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