"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
Widely attributed to Dr. Seuss (Real name of Theodor Seuss Geisel).
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"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be."
Dramatis Personae "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1864)
This poem was written about 12th century Abraham ibn Ezra, a sort of "Renaissance man" before there was a Renaissance. The poem is an explanation of the ideas Ezra espoused in his life.
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"Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me."
Stanzas for Music, st. 1 (1816).
Byron wrote this in a poem, ostensibly to be set to music. The entire poem is loaded with innuendo, and is addressed specifically to the person with whom the speaker is attracted to.
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
As quoted in Women Who Win at Work: Flowers of Wisdom from Visionary Businesswomen (2009) pg. 106
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"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."
The Brook Kerith Ch. 11, (1916)
From a very controversial book, for it's time, the story this quote is drawn from saw Jesus be both non-divine and go to India to seek knowledge.
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"Love ever gives,--
Forgives--outlives,--
And ever stands
With open hands.
And, while it lives,
It Gives.
For this is Love's prerogative,--
To give,--and give,--and give."
The Vision Splendid (1917) pg. 74
From a poem titled, "Love ever gives" by the pseudonymous William Arthur Dunkerley, who often went by John Oxenham for his writing.
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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes...:A Moral Antipathy (1892) pg. 246
Thought by a doctor in Holmes's A Moral Antipathy, the character was speaking about how love can conquer fear, fear of women, specifically.
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The Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, Sir Winston Churchill rose to power after serving in different posts in liberal and conservative governments for more than three decades. The son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, Churchill remained Prime Minister and Minister of Defence until 1945, then returned to the position in 1951 until his resignation in 1954. In addition to being a world leader, Churchill was an established author, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. His memoirs of WWII ran six large volumes alone and his speeches continue to b…
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