The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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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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Life is too short for chess.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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

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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

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A drop of ink may make a million think.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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