"If with love thy heart has burned;If..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If with love thy heart has burned;If thy love is unreturned;Hide thy grief within thy breast,Though it tear thee unexpressed.
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“Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.”
“Virtue alone is sweet society,It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,And opens you a welcome in them all.”
“We grant no dukedoms to the few,We hold like rights and shall;Equal on Sunday in the pew,On Monday in the mall.For what avail the plough or sail,Or land, or life, if freedom fail?”
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“The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.”
“If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.”
“The science of love is the philosophy of the heart”
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“Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.”
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”