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Quote by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

“Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.”

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Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

French historian born on March 9, 1749, and died on April 2, 1791. Mirabeau is known for his in-depth research into the history of the French Revolution. more

“Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!" Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Captain Butler, as long as you live.”

Ifs Want Love Long Faces Heard Love You Someday Your Face Southern I Want You Captains Flirting Butlers Belle Plantations Live Love Ashley Scarlett O Hara Southern Belle Ashley Wilkes

Author:Clark Gable

“No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.”

Love Running Night Dark Power Sun Gold Blessed Constant Thread Old Love

Book:The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems

Source: The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems

“When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.”

Love Fall Stars Watches Sea Thee Twilight Dew Beam Rosy

Author:Charles Lamb

“'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.”

Thinking Love Sweet Lips Dear Making Love

Author:Charles Lamb

“Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.”

Love Light Eye Night Hours Justice Pleasure Son Flower Moon Midnight Vulgar Scorn Maids

Author:Charles Lamb

“Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.”

Love Years Heart Light Eye Night Memories Gone Tears Broken Bounds Chains Cheerful Slumber Boyhood Fond Memories

Author:Charles Lamb

“Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.”

Knows Love Firsts Wells Eye Dies Hope Black Hours Tree Childhood Flower And Love Dear Glad Fades Decay Know Me Fade Away Black Eyes Gazelles

Author:Charles Lamb

“Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.”

Love Christ Lord Command

Book:Notes on the Book of Genesis. [By C. H. M., i.e. C. H. Mackintosh. Edited by A. M., i.e. Andrew Miller.] Second edition, revised

Source: Notes on the Book of Genesis. [By C. H. M., i.e. C. H. Mackintosh. Edited by A. M., i.e. Andrew Miller.] Second edition, revised

“I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.”

Love Desire Awareness Conscious Plant

Book:An Island Garden

Source: An Island Garden

“We are but little children weak Nor born in any high estate. . . . . There's not a child so small and weak But has his little cross to take, His little work of love and praise That he may do for Jesus' sake.”

Love May Children Littles Jesus Born Work Crosses Weak Praise Sake Estates

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

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