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The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter to his brother Theo, Cuesmes (July 1880)
- God
There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel: I mean your love.
Elizabeth I of England1533–1603The Golden Speech (1601)
- Leadership
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Enemies
- Forgiveness
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Money
I lov’d Ophelia; forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act V, Scene I, spoken by HamletIn context
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIn context
- Character
- Marriage
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context
- Dancing
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter VIIn context
- Marriage
- Women
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IXIn context
- Poetry
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIn context
- Character
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Marriage
“it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context