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The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
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Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you…
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
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The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire
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The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to…
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We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them
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