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Lovers Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,…
- The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for…
- In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
- Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
- We expect a great man to be a good reader.
- And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never…
- The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
- Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
- All mankind love a lover.
- There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
- The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy…
- I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In…
- The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she…
- All the world loves a lover.
- There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
More Lovers Quotes
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore de Balzac
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac
- Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. — Honore de Balzac
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not… — Brigitte Bardot
- The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the… — Djuna Barnes