Excessive Love Quotes

• A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

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  Bertrand Russell

  Mean   Worry   Serenity  

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.310, Psychology Press

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• My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again! His beauty... his sweetness and gentleness - really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a husband! to be called names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before - was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life! May God help me to do my duty as I ought and be worthy of such blessings.

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  Queen Victoria

  Husband   Blessing   Names  

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• Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

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  Ovid

  Love   Loathing   Ends  

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• This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

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  John Bright

  Europe   Liberty   Balance  

  1858 Speech, Birmingham, 29 Oct.

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• But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.

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  Margaret Atwood

  Too Much   Excessive Love  

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• The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

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  Plato

  Self Esteem   Lying   Pride  

  Plato (1984). “Laws”

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• Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

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  Herman Melville

  Selfish   Military   Men  

  Herman Melville (1966). “Billy Budd”, p.14, Hayes Barton Press

  1857

• What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

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  Galileo Galilei

  Gratitude   Mean   Hands  

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