Life is too short for chess.

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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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To have joy, one must share it.

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Think not I am what I appear.

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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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