"You've got to love what's lovable, and..." - Quote by Robert Frost
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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“It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.”
“There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.”
“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”
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“Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
“The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.”