Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Love
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"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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