Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
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“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
“There the Lord of kings holds His scepter, governing the reigns of the world. With sure control He drives the swift chariot, the shining judge of all things.”
“It is not the walls of your library with their glass and ivory decorations that I am looking for, but the seat of your mind.”
“So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.”
“And further, God should not be regarded as older than His creations by any period of time, but rather by the peculiar property of His own single nature. For the infinite changing of temporal things tries to imitate the ever simultaneously present immutability of His life: it cannot succeed in imitating or equalling this, but sinks from immutability into change, and falls from the single directness of the present into an infinite space of future and past. And since this temporal state cannot possess its life completely and simultaneously, but it does, in the same manner, exist forever without ceasing, it therefore seems to try in some degree to rival that which it cannot fulfill or represent, for it binds itself to some sort of present time out of this small and fleeting moment; but inasmuch as this temporal present bears a certain appearance of that abiding present, it somehow”
“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.”
“Love is stronger than justice.”
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.”
“Love is suffering. One side always loves more.”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”