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• True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

  Jeffree Star

  Liars, Lying, Lovers

  Twitter post from Sep 5, 2011

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• The True Lover is the one who realizes that Loyalty must go hand in hand with Freedom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Loyalty, Hands, Lovers

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• An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

  Kedar Joshi

  Love, Blind, Pragmatic

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• You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Knowing, Church

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• Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.

  Celia Thaxter

  Happiness, Uplifting, Children

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• If ever thou shalt love,
  In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
  For such as I am all true lovers are,
  Unstaid and skittish in all motions else
  Save in the constant image of the creature
  That is beloved.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lovers, Beloved

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 15

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• True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

  Aberjhani

  Love, School, Dust

  Aberjhani (2008). “Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World”, p.153, Lulu.com

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• The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

  Plato

  Life, Lying, Mean

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• The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

  Emma Goldman

  Integrity, Lying, Believe

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

  Thomas Malory

  Love, Queens, Littles

  'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25

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• The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Loyalty, Realizing

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• I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "Little Foxes". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 3, 1865.

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• With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Mistake, Women

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.111

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• Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

  Walter Scott

  Moon, Men, Degrees

  Walter Scott (1826). “Poetical Works Complete in One Volume”, p.352

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• It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears, and to sound the alarm, whenever he perceives the approach of mischief. But he sounds no alarm, when there is no enemy; he never terrifies his countrymen till he is terrified himself. The patriotism, therefore, may be justly doubted of him, who professes to be disturbed by incredibilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Distance, Jealous

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.135

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• True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.

  Rosalind Miles

  Mean, Men, Doe

  Rosalind Miles (2007). “Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle: The First of the Tristan and Isolde Novels”, p.57, Broadway Books

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• Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Sea, Rivers

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• All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Glimpse, Lovers

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Other Wind: The Sixth Book of Earthsea”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops
  And they couldn't grow up any higher;
  So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot,
  For all lovers true to admire.

  Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell

  Life, Growing Up, Church

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• The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Forever, Lovers

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Other Wind”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  Plato

  Children, Passion, Reality

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• My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

  William Blake

  Love, Air, Yew

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.413, Univ of California Press

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• your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Music, Play, Sweat

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• The true lovers of humanity are those who put on the uniform with regret, fight like hell when they wear it, take it off without rejoicing, but hang it where it can be got at if necessary, and remember that they must still stand watch in civilian clothes over the trophies of victory.

  Rupert Hughes

  Regret, Fighting, Clothes

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