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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

— William Blake

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

— William Shakespeare

Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.

— Jay McInerney

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

— Plato

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

— Paulo Coelho

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

— Edmund Waller

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

— Lord Byron

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

— Richard Rolle

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