You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth.

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

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The devil was the first democrat

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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

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To have joy, one must share it.

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