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“The love of peace of mind is often wrongly identified as the hatred of people, some people, or some person.”
“The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]”
“The love of popularity holds you in a vice.”
“The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.”
“The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.”
“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”
Source: Essays on Sex Equality
“The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.”
Source: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
“The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.”
“The love of power excludes all others.”
“The love of power is the demon of mankind.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Source: THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. Dr. E. YOUNG WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
“The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings
“The love of reading can be contagious.”
Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague
“The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius
“The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.”
Source: Dark Tales (Illustrated Edition): Gothic Classics:
“The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.”
Source: The Works of Matthew Arnold
“The love of sibling is the most unconditional love of all. It is pure and loyal. A love without demand, without expectations or pretense.”
“The love of siblings is the most unconditional love of all. It is pure and loyal. A love without demand, without expectations or pretense.”
“The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.”
“The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.”
“The love of something precedes desire and grief over it. Whatever men love, they delight in possessing them, mourn to be without, and desire to gain.”
Source: Depression, Anxiety, and the Christian Life: Practical Wisdom from Richard Baxter
“The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.”
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.”
“The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.”
Source: Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself
“The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.”
“The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.”
“The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.”
Source: PRACTICAL RELIGION
“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”
“The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.”
Source: The benefactor: a novel
“The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.”
Source: Symposium
“The Love of the LORD is the light of life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The love of the LORD makes living a worthwhile.”
“The love of the people is a ruler's surest shield against danger.”
Source: Before They Are Hanged
“The love of the saints arises from a selflessness which comes from God alone and which, with holy earnestness, desires the good of others. Is it not right, therefore, that we should continue to seek this love, even after the hearts in which it lived have ceased to beat on earth? Death according to Christian belief is not an end but a transition. Those who die in the name of Christ do not enter into the void but into the fullness of holy reality.”
Source: Art of Praying: The Principles and Methods of Christian Prayer
“The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.”
“The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.”
Source: The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“The love of titles is common to all men, and a vicar or a fellow is as pleased at becoming Mr. Archdeacon or Mr. Provost, as a lieutenant at getting his captaincy, or a city tallow-chandler in becoming Sir John on the occasion of a Queen’s visit to a new bridge.”
Source: The Warden
“The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.”
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
“The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?”
Source: Philosophical works
“The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.”
Source: Carrion Comfort
“The love of wicked men converts to fear;
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“The love of wine is a good man's failing.”
Source: The Wasps (Sparklesoup Classics)
“The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love; the courage to have compassion with others, especially the widow and the orphan, the fatherless and the motherless, poor and working peoples, gays and lesbians, and so forth - and the courage to hope.”
“The love of wisdom is never wasted, it´s amongst other creative things the greatest joy.”
“The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.”
“The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.”
“The love of your life can only ever be the person who chooses you for their life. It can never be the person who doesn’t choose you.”
Source: Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily