Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies they themselves commit.

- Shakespeare -

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

- T. Hardy -

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And the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad, made to his mistress's eyebrow.

- Shakespeare, As You Like It -

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth, The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

- Milton -

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

- Emerson -

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Call me not foot till heaven hath sent me fortune.

- Shakespeare, As You Like It -

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Happiness or misery generally go to those who have most of the one of the one or the other.

- La Rochefoucauld -

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The conquest of lust is the highest endeavour of a man's or woman's existence. Without overcoming lust man cannot hope to rule over self.

- M. Gandhi, Harijan -

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On the soft beds of luxury most kingdoms have expired. The superfluous - a very necessary thing.

- Voltaire -

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Lying is the mother of violence.

- M. Gandhi, Young India -

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Let me have no lying : it becomes non but tradesmen.

- Shakespeare, Winter's Tale -

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