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“But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.”

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Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.”

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Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone”

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Book:The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone

Source: The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone

“All true love is grounded on esteem.”

Love Love Is Esteem Grounded True Love Is

Author:George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

“She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.”

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Author:Theresa Villiers

“Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.”