Text Examples for
Valentines

Saint Valentines Day
February 14

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1 Corinthians 13:4-7:
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects,
always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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How do I Love Thee:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old grief's, and with my childhood's faith
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath.
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
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St. Valentines Day:
Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated
Should seem "a cuckoo-song," as thou dost treat it,
Remember, never to the hill or plain,
Valley and wood, without her cuckoo-strain
Comes the fresh Spring in all her green completed,
Beloved, I, amid the darkness greeted
By a doubtful spirit-voice, in that doubt's pain
Cry, Speak once more--thou lovest! Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll,
Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me--toll
The silver iterance!--only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul.
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To My Dear and Loving Husband:
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women you can
I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold.
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold repay,
Then while we live, in love let's so persevere
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
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A Red, Red Rose:
O my Love's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June:
O my Love's like the melody
That's sweetly played in tune! As fair as art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I:
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry: Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run. And fare thee well, my only Love,
And fare thee well a while!
And I will come again, my Love,
Though' it were ten thousand mile
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She Walks In Beauty:
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright,
Meet in the aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven and gaudy day denies.
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I'll be yours forevermore:
It is almost here, that special time of year.
When hearts and flowers by the hours are
brought to all who seek; When kisses swirl
and words do peak into little tuffs of cotton
(candy) my sweet. So be my love and be my
own and call me on the telephone or send a
card, that is not hard, right to my waiting door,
and I'll be yours forevermore
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Joeseph Addison:
Through all eternity to thee
A joyful song I'll raise,
For oh! Eternity is too short
To utter all thy praise
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Thomas D'Urfey:
Never so happily in one
Did heaven and earth combine;
And yet 'tis flesh and blood alone
That makes her so divine
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Robert Burns:
O, my love's like a red red rose
That's newly sprung in June
O my love's like a melody
That's sweetly played in tune
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Thomas Hood:
I love thee, I love thee,
Tis' all that I can say;
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
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William Shakespeare:
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called.
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Samuel Butler:
All love, at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets until 'tis fine,
But, when 'tis settled on the lee,
And from th' impure matter free,
Becomes the richer still the older,
And Proves the pleasanter the colder.
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printed in Poor Robin's Alganac:
This month bright Phoebus enters Pisces,
The maids will have good store of kisses,
For always when the fun comes there,
Valentine's Day is drawing near,
And both the men and maids incline
To choose them each a Valentine;
And if a man gets one he loves,
He gives her first a pair of gloves;
And, by the way, remember this,
To seal the favor with a kiss.

This kiss begets more love, and then
That love begets a kiss again,
Until this trade the man doth catch,
And then he doth propose the match,
The woman's willing, tho' she's shy,
She gives the man this soft reply,
"I'll not resolve one thing or other,
Until I first consult my mother."
When she says so, 'tis half a grant,
And may be taken for consent.
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Turtle Doves and Love Birds:
"Oft have I heard both youth and virgin say
Birds choose their mates, and couples too, this day;
But by their flight I never can divine,
When I shall couple with my Valentine."
Herrick In the 1840's messages on early valentines included:

I love thee! Oh! I love thee!
Dearer art thou than life.
I love thee! I love thee!
Say, wilt thou be my wife?
This Valentine's Day, to the church let's away;
No longer I'll wait, let us marry.
You promised, dear maid, that you would be mine,
If I, till today, would tarry.
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Wilt Thou Be Mine?:
Wilt thou me mine? dear love, reply, -
Sweetly consent, or else deny:
Whisper softly, none shall know, -
Wilt thou be mine, love? - yes or no?
Spite of fortune, we may be
Happy by one word from thee;
Life flies swiftly; ere it go,
Wilt thou be mine, love? - yes or no?
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There Is A Lady:
There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Her gesture, motion, and her smiles
Her wit, her voice my heart beguiles,
Beguiles my heart, I know not why,
And yet I love her till I die.

Cupid is winged and doth range
Her country so my love doth change
But change she the earth, or change she sky,
Yet will I love her till I die.
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Love is Anterior to Life:
Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
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Sonnet XVIII:
Shall I compare thee to a warm summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed:
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
So long as men cen breath or eyes can see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Love's Philosophy:
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle;--
Why not I with mine? See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;
What are all these kissing's worth,
If thou kiss not me?
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My True-Love Hath My Heart:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one for another given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:
He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
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Life in a Love:
Escape me?
Never—
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear—
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed—
But what if I fail of my purpose here?

It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up to begin again,—
So the chase takes up one's life, that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound,
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope drops to ground
Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark,
I shape me—
Ever
Removed!
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Love:
And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.
You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within ;
And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart
Thro' all my Being, thro' my pulse's beat ;
You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light,
Like the fair light of Dawn, or summer Eve
On rippling Stream, or cloud-reflecting Lake.
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot that made me love you.
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Love:
And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.
You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within ;
And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart
Thro' all my Being, thro' my pulse's beat ;
You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light,
Like the fair light of Dawn, or summer Eve
On rippling Stream, or cloud-reflecting Lake.
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot that made me love you.
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Sonnet CXVI::
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese XIV:
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
'I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'—
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,—
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
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True Love:
True love is a sacred flame
That burns eternally,
And none can dim its special glow
Or change its destiny.
True love speaks in tender tones
And hears with gentle ear,
True love gives with open heart
And true love conquers fear.
True love makes no harsh demands
It neither rules nor binds,
And true love holds with gentle hands The hearts that it entwines.
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Wild Nights! - Wild Nights!:
Wild nights--wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile the winds
To a heart in port--
Done with the compass,
Done with the chart!

Rowing in Eden--
Ah, the sea!
Might I moor, tonight,
In thee!

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She Was A Phantom of Delight:
She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing Shape, an Image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.

I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin-liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A Being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveler between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect Woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light.
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Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her:
If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.
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Love Like Flowers:
A rose can say I love you,
Orchids can enthrall,
But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist,
Oh my, that says it all!
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I give to you...:
A piece of a rainbow to color your world,
when all seems totally gray.
Some roses for the sweet perfume,
to kiss your senses with its bouquet.
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St. Valentine's Day Prayer:
I said a Valentine prayer for you
and asked the Lord above
to fill your heart and bless your soul
With the precious gift of love.

I asked Him for sincere love
The kind that's meant to stay
Just like the generous love
You give to those you touch each day.

I prayed for love from family
And from every cherished friend
Then I asked the Lord to give you
His love that knows no end.
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Victor Hugo:
What a grand thing, to be loved!
What a grander thing still, to love!
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William Shakespeare:
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
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Sophocles:
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love.
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Cannot Live Without:
You don't marry someone you can live with,
you marry the person who you cannot live without.
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:
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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1 Corinthians:
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
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Mark 10:9:
What therefore God has joined together,
let no man separate.
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1 Corinthians 13:4:
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
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Sir James M. Barrie:
If you have it [love],
you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it,
it doesn't matter much what else you do have.
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Fate:
"I Heard Him Say
"Accept the things to which fate binds you,
and love the people with whom fate brings you together,
but do so with all your heart."
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Abdul Baha ( 1844-1921):
"Let us have love and more love;
a love that melts all opposition,
a love that conquers all foes,
a love that sweeps away all barriers,
a love that aboundeth in charity,
a large-heartedness, tolerance,
forgiveness and noble striving,
a love that triumphs over all obstacles."
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Rose Speaks:
"The rose speaks of love silently,
in a language known only to the heart."
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The sound of a kiss:
"The sound of a kiss
is not so loud as a cannon,
but it's echo lasts a great deal longer."
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Hoosier Farmer:
"Love is the thing that enables
a woman to sing
while she mops up the floor
after her husband has walked
across it in his barn boots."
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Love like Paint:
"Love like paint,
can make things beautiful
when you spread it,
but it simply dries up when you don't use it."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
"Love does not consist in gazing at each-other
but in looking together in the same direction."
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Mother Teresa:
"Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within the reach of every hand."
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Pierre Tielhard De Chardin:
Love alone is capable of uniting
beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them,
for it alone takes them and joins them by what is
the deepest in themselves.
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Mahabharata (B.C.400):
There is naught better to be
With noble souls of company:
There is naught dearer than to wend
With good friends faithful to the end.
This is the love whose fruit is sweet;
Therefore to abide within is meet.
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Doves:
It was thought that birds chose their mate for the year on February 14.
Doves and pigeons mate for life and therefore were used as a symbol of "fidelity."
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Recipe for Valentines Joy:
1/2 cup Hugs
4 tsp Kisses
4 cups Love
1 cup Special Holiday Cheer
1/2 cup sweetheart hugs
3 tsp cinnamon hearts
2 cups Love and Kindness
1 bag of Valentines
1 medium-size bag of great big red hearts
(the regular kind won't do!)

Blend all and sprinkle with lots of love!
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Joke:
Q: What did the boy octopus say to the girl octopus on Valentine's Day?

A: I want to hold your hand, hand,
hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand.
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Joke:
Q: What did the valentine card say to the stamp? A: Stick with me and we'll go places!
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Olive You:
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Olive.
Olive who?
Olive you!
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Harvest Love:
"Those who plant kindness harvest love".
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Friendship:
There's a miracle of Friendship
that dwells within the heart,
And you don't know how it happens
or where it gets its start...
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift,
And you realize that Friendship
Is God's most perfect gift.
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Song of Songs 2:16-17:
My lover belongs to me and I to him;
He browses among the lilies.
Until the day breathes cool
and the shadows lengthen,
roam, my lover,
like a gazelle or a young stag
upon the mountains of
Bether.
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Mark Twain:
To get to the full value of joy
you must have somebody
to divide it with.
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Alexander Pope:
To err is human,
to forgive divine.
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James Howell:
"Distance sometimes
endears friendship,
and absence sweeteneth it."
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Hunger for Love:
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread".
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Love Grows:
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.
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I Love You:
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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Charles Dickens:
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom".
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Victor Hugo:
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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:
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
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Quotes:
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
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Love Lessons:
The greatest lesson you will learn is just to love, and be loved in return.
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Love is Loving:
True love is loving someone not in spite of their faults, but because of them.
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Taste the Salt:
Henceforth there will be such a oneness between us--
that when one weeps the other will taste the salt.
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Lose Myself:
Within you I lose myself,
without you I find myself,
wanting to be lost again.
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Gift:
"The only gift is a portion of thyself".
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A Kiss:
The most eloquent silence;
that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
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Grow old with me.:
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the
first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, "A whole I planned,
youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!"
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Beside You:
Never above you.
Never below you.
Always beside you.
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Love:
Love has nothing to do with
what you are expecting to get,
it's what you are expected to give...
which is everything.
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Love is a Flower:
"Love is flower of life, which blossoms unexpectedly and without law..."
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I Love You More Today:
"I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
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Love Cures People:
"Love cures people, both the ones who give it & the ones who receive it."
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Loved Only One:
"I have known many, Liked few, Loved only one, And that is you."
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That Word Is Love:
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: That word is love."
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Love Is The Honey:
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."
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Value of Love:
"Some things are loved because they are valuable;
others are valuable because they are loved."
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Just One Person:
"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."
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Today, Tomorrow and Always:
Today, Tomorrow and Always As God brings you closer together throughout
each day of your life, may you renew the faith-filled promise that joined
you as husband and wife ... And may the memories you treasure give
you the vision to see that today, tomorrow and always, you're blessed
with a love meant to be.
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Pope John Paul II:
Do not forget that true love
sets no conditions;
it does not calculate
or complain,
but simply loves.
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How to say I Love You in different Languages:
Language Translation

Afrikaans Ek het jou liefe
Afrikaans Ek is lief vir jou
Albanian te dashuroj
Albanian te dua
Alentejano(Portugal) Gosto De Ti, Porra!
Alsacien Ich hoan dich gear
Amharic Afekrishalehou
Arabic Ana Ba-heb-bak
Arabic Ib'n hebbak
Arabic nhebuk
Arabic (to female) Ana Behibek
Arabic (to male) Ana Behibak
Armenian Yes kez si'rumem
Assamese Moi tomak bhal pau

Language Translation
Basc Nere Maitea
Batak Holong rohangku di ho
Bavarian I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Bengali Ami tomake bhalobashi
Berber Lakh tirikh
Bicol Namumutan ta ka
Bolivian Quechua qanta munani
Bulgarian Obicham te
Burmese chit pa de

Language Translation
Cambodian Bon sro lanh oon
Cambodian kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
Canadian French Je t'aime
Cantonese Moi oiy neya
Cantonese Ngo oi ney
Catalan T'estim (mallorcan)
Catalan T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
Catalan T'estime (valencian)
Catalan T'estimo (catalonian)
Cebuano Gihigugma ko ikaw
Chickasaw chiholloli
Chinese (see Mandarin or Cantonese)
Corsican Ti tengu cara (to female)
Corsican Ti tengu caru (to male)
Croatian LJUBim te
Czech MILUJU TE! (colloquial)
Czech miluji te

Language Translation
Danish Jeg elsker dig
Dutch Ik ben verliefd op je
Dutch Ik hou van jou

Language Translation
Ecuador Quechua
English I Love You
English I adore You
Esperanto Mi amas vin
Estonian Mina armastan sind
Estonian Ma armastan sind

Language Translation
Farsi Asheghetam
Farsi Tora dust midaram
Farsi (Persian) doostat dAram
Filipino Iniibig Kita
Filipino Mahal ka ta
Finnish Mina rakastan sinua
Flemish Ik zie oe geerne
French Je t'adore
French Je t'aime
Friesian Ik hald fan dei

Language Translation
Gaelic Ta gra agam ort
German Ich liebe Dich
Greek s'ayapo
Greek (old) (Ego) philo su ("ego" for emphasis)
Greenlandic Asavakit
Gujrati Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon

Language Translation
Hausa Ina sonki
Hawaiian Aloha I'a Au Oe
Hebrew Ani ohev otach (male to female)
Hebrew Ani ohev otcha (male to male)
Hebrew Ani ohevet otach (female to female)
Hebrew Ani ohevet otcha (female to male)
Hindi Mai tumase pyar karata hun (male to female)
Hindi Mai tumase pyar karati hun (female to male)
Hokkien Wa ai lu
Hopi Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian Szeretlek
Hungarian Szeretlek te'ged

Language Translation
Icelandic Eg elska thig
Indi Mai Tujhe Pyaar Kartha Ho
Indonesian Aku tjinta padamu (not often used)
Indonesian Saya cinta padamu (commonly used)
Iranian Mahn doostaht doh-rahm
Irish taim i' ngra leat
Italian ti amo (for lover or spouse)
Italian ti voglio bene (for friend or relative)

Language Translation
Japanese Aishiteru
Japanese Chuu shiteyo
Japanese Kimi o ai shiteru
Japanese Kulo tresno
Japanese Ora omee no koto ga suki da
Japanese Ore wa omae ga suki da
Japanese Suitonnen
Japanese Suki desu (for new relationships)
Japanese Sukiyanen
Japanese Sukiyo
Japanese Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu
Japanese Watashi Wa Anata Ga Suki Desu
Japanese Watashi Wa Anata Wo Aishithe Imasu

Language Translation
Kannada Naanu Ninnanu Mohisuthene
Kannada Naanu Ninnanu Preethisuthene
Kiswahili Nakupenda
Korean Gdaereul Hjanghan Naemaeum Alji
Korean Nanun Dangsineul Mucheog Joahapnida
Korean Nanun Dangsineul Saranghapnida
Korean Nanun Gdaega Joa
Korean Nanun Gdaereul Saranghapnida
Korean Nanun Neoreul Saranghanda
Korean Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
Korean No-rul sarang hae (man to woman in casual relationship)
Korean Saranghae
Korean Saranghaeyo
Korean Saranghapanida
Korean Tangshin-i cho-a-yo (i like you, in a romantic way)
Korean Tangshin-ul sarang hae-yo
Korean Tangsinul Sarang Ha Yo
Korean Tangsinul sarang ha yo
Korean dang shin ul sa rang heh
Korean oahaeyo
Kurdish Ez te hezdikhem

Language Translation
Lao Khoi huk chau
Lao Koi muk jao
Latin Te amo
Latin Vos amo
Latin (old) (Ego) amo te ("ego" for emphasis)
Latvian Es milu tevi
Lebanese Bahibak
Lingala Nalingi yo
Lisbon (Portugal) gramo-te bue', chavalinha
Lithuanian Tave Myliu
Lojban mi do prami
Luo Aheri

Language Translation
Macedonian SAKAM TE!
Madrid (Spain) Me molas, tronca
Malay Saya cintakan mu
Malay Saya sayangkan mu
Malay/Indonesian Saya cintakan awak
Malay/Indonesian Saya sayangkan engkau
Malayalam Ngan Ninne Snaehikkunnu
Malayalam Njyaan Ninne' Mohikyunnu
Malayalam Njyaan Ninne' Preetikyunnu
Malaysian Saya Cinta Kamu
Malaysian Saya Cintamu
Malaysian Saya Sayangmu
Mandarin Wo ai ni
Marathi Mi tuzya var prem karato
Marathi me tujhashi prem karte (female to male)
Marathi me tujhashi prem karto (male to female)
Mohawk Konoronhkwa

Language Translation
Navaho Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele Niyakutanda
Norwegian Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)
Norwegian Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)

Language Translation
Osetian Aez dae warzyn

Language Translation
Pakistani Mujhe Tumse Muhabbat Hai
Persian Tora dost daram
Polish Ja cie kocham
Polish Kocham Cie
Polish Kocham Ciebie
Polish Yacha kocham
Portuguese Amo-te
Portuguese (Brazilian) Eu te amo
Punjabi Mai taunu pyar karda
Punjabi Main Tainu Pyar Karna

Language Translation
Quenya Tye-mela'ne
Language Translation
Romanian Te Ador
Romanian Te iu besc
Russian Ya polubeel s'tebya
Russian Ya tebya liubliu
Russian Ya vas liubliu
Russian (Malincaya) Ya Tibieh Lublue

Language Translation
Scot Gaelic Tha gra / dh agam ort
Serbian ljubim te
Serbocroatian Ljubim te
Serbocroatian Volim te
Shona Ndinokuda
Sinhalese Mama oyata adarei
Sioux Techihhila
Slovak lubim ta
Slovene ljubim te
Spanish Te amo
Spanish Te quiero
Srilankan Mama Oyata Arderyi
Swahili Naku penda (followed by the person's name)
Swedish Jag älskar dig
Swiss-German Ch'ha di gärn
Syrian/Lebanese Bhebbak (to a male)
Syrian/Lebanese Bhebbek (to a female)

Language Translation
Tagalog Mahal kita
Tahitian Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil Naan Unnai Kadalikiren
Tcheque MILUJI TÊ
Telugu Neenu ninnu pra'mistu'nnanu
Telugu/India Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu
Thai Ch'an Rak Khun (formal, female to male)
Thai Khao Raak Thoe (affectionate, loving)
Thai Phom Rak Khun (formal, male to female)
Tunisian Ha eh bak
Turkish Seni seviyorum

Language Translation
Ukrainian ja pokoKHAv tebe
Ukrainian ja pokoKHAv vas
Ukrainian ja tebe koKHAju (true love)
Ukrainian ja vas koKHAju
Urdu Main Tumse Muhabbat Karta Hoon
Urdu Mujhe tumse mohabbat hai

Language Translation
Vietnamese Anh yêu em (male to female)
Vietnamese Em yêu anh (female to male)
Vietnamese Toi yeu em
Vlaams Ik hue van ye

Language Translation
Welsh 'Rwy'n dy garu di
Welsh Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)

Language Translation
Yiddish Ich han dich lib
Yiddish Ich libe dich
Yiddish Ikh Hob Dikh Lib
Yugoslavian Ya te volim

Language Translation
Zazi Ezhele hezdege
Zulu Mena Tanda Wena
Zulu Ngiyakuthanda!
Zuni Tom ho' ichema
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A Good Marriage ...:
A Good Marriage ...
blending two lives, finding common ground, letting dreams percolate, brewing
new plans, savoring life's goodness ... and knowing your cup
runs over with love.
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We Have Lost Even:
We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin between my hands.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always turned to at twilight
and my cape rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward where the twilight goes erasing statues.
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Don Juan:
CIX Julia had honor, virtue, truth, and love
For Don Alfonso; and she inlay swore,
By all the vows below to powers above,
She never would disgrace the ring she wore,
Nor leave a wish which wisdom might reprove;
And while she pondered this, besides much more,
One hand on Juan's carelessly was thrown,
Quite by mistake--she thought it was her own;

CX Unconsciously she leaned upon the other,
Which played within the tangles of her hair;
And to contend with the thoughts she could not smother
She seemed, by the distraction of her air.
'Twas surely very wrong in Juan's mother
To leave together this imprudent pair,
She who for many years had watched her son so--
I'm very certain mine would not have done so.

CXI The hand which still held Juan's, by degrees
Gently, but palpably confirmed its grasp,
As if it said, "Detain me, if you please;"
Yet there's no doubt she only meant to clasp
His fingers with a pure Platonic squeeze;
She would have shrunk as from a toad, or asp,
Had she imagined such a thing could rouse
A feeling dangerous to a prudent spouse.

CXII I cannot know what Juan thought of this,
But what he did, is much what you would do;
His young lip thanked it with a graceful kiss,
And then, abashed at his own joy, withdrew
In deep despair, lest he had done amiss,--
Love is so very timid when 'tis anew:
She blushed, and frowned not, but she strove to speak,
And held her tongue, her voice was grown so weak.

CXVII And Julia's voice was lost, except in sighs,
Until too late for useful conversation;
The tears were gushing from her gentle eyes,
I wish, indeed, they had not had occasion;
But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?
Not that remorse did not oppose temptation;
A little still she strove, and much repented,
And whispering "I will ne'er consent"--consented
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Perfect Woman:
Perfect Woman She was a phantom of delight
When she first gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon a nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveler between life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
A perfect Woman, nobly planned,
To warm, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of an angelic light.
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I Gave Myself to Him:
I gave myself to him
And took himself for pay.
The solemn contract of a life
Was ratified this way

The value might disappoint
Myself a poorer prove
Than this my purchaser suspect
The daily own of love.

Depreciates the sight
But, 'til the merchant buy,
Still fabled, in the isles of spice
The subtle cargoes lie.

At least, "'tis mutual risk"
(Some found it mutual gain)
Sweet debt of life—each night to owe,
Insolvent every noon!
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Marriage Morning:
Light, so low upon earth,
You send a flash to the sun.
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.
Oh, the woods and the meadows,
Woods where we hid from the wet,
Stiles where we stayed to be kind,
Meadows in which we met!

Light, so low in the vale
You flash and lighten afar,
For this is the golden morning of love,
And you are his morning start.
Flash, I am coming, I come,
By meadow and stile and wood,
Oh, lighten into my eyes and heart,
Into my heart and my blood!

Heart, are you great enough
For a love that never tires?
O' heart, are you great enough for love?
I have heard of thorns and briers,
Over the meadow and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
Flash for a million miles.
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I Love Thee:
I love thee - I love thee!
'Tis all that I can say;
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day;
The very echo of my heart,
The blessing when I pray:
I love thee - I love thee!
Is all that I can say.

I love thee - I love thee!
Is ever on my tongue;
In all my proudest poesy
That chorus still is sung;
It is the verdict of my eyes,
Amidst the gay and young:
I love thee - I love thee!
A thousand maids among.

I love thee - I love thee!
Thy bright and hazel glance,
The mellow lute upon those lips,
Whose tender tones entrance;
But most, dear heart of hearts, thy proofs
That still these words enhance.
I love thee - I love thee!
Whatever be thy chance.
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A Red Red Rose:
O' my Luv's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.--

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will love thee still, my Dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.--

Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
I will love thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.--

And fare thee weel, my only Luve!
And fare thee weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile!
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