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Power of love17 quotes
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BCLove may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. — Hesiod · 700 BCLove, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BCAll 17 quotes →
Love16 quotes
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BCLove may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. — Hesiod · 700 BCLove, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BCAll 16 quotes →
Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792
All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing. — Jesus · 1988
Change1 quote
All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing. — Jesus · 1988
Fear1 quote
Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. — William Shakespeare · 1594
Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. — William Shakespeare · 1594
Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1942