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Authors: Diane Warner

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Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
Kahlil Gibran
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love."
Kahlil Gibran
"Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity."
Kahlil Gibran
"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. I shall love you until I die."
Voltaire
 
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"It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world."
Benjamin Franklin
"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
Martin Luther
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Robert Burns
"Tonight is a night of union and also of scattering of the stars,
for a bride is coming from the sky: the full moon.
The sky is an astrolabe, and the Law is Love."
From "Persian Love Poem" by Jalal Al-Din Rumi

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