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A LOVE Song Soon after his marriage, the famous nineteenth
century poet and composer Thomas Moore was called away on business. On his return he was
not met by his beautiful bride, but by their family doctor. "Your wife is upstairs.
But she has asked you not to come up. She has had small-pox. The disease has left her once
flawless skin pocked and scarred. She has drawn the shutters, and asked that you never see
her again.
The song ended. His bride arose to her feet, crossed the room and slowly opened the shutters. Love was unafraid of the light of reality. |
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Valentine Fact Valentine's Day Cards
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LOVE Quotation To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love... is Hell. C. S. Lewis |
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