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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
  As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable....
• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
  The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable....
• The tortured love is a burning flame, It burns so bright and consumes all pain.
• QOTD: "Like this rose, our love will wilt and die.
• Love is ever the beginning of knoweledge as fire is of light.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Goeth, Foreign Review, No. 111 (1828)...
• It's love if they order one of those desserts that are on fire.
  They like to order those because it's just like how their hearts are --- on fire....
• Moonstruck We're here to ruin ourselves, and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die.
  --Nicholas Cage to Che...
• A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- How shall I woo?...
• The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground
  'T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears....