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it is not selfseeking, 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. But where there are prophecies, they will cease。 a cruel word may wreck a life。 then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation youve ever had. Its true that we dont know what weve got until we lose it, but its also true that we dont know what weve been missing until it arrives. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Dont go for looks。 but to the loved most of all, except the love be reciproque. for it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt. by how much the more, men ought to beware of this passion, which loseth not only other things, but itself! as for the other losses, the poets relation doth well figure them: that he that preferred helena, quitted the gifts of juno and pallas. for whosoever esteemeth too much of amorous affection, quitteth both riches and wisdom. this passion hath his floods, in very times of weakness。 whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate。 for whereas it hath been well said, that the archflatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a mans self。 where there are tongues, they will be stilled。 a timely word may level stress。 then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part。 and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love, and to