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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!


Charles Dickens

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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round
LEWIS CARROLL Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
LEWIS CARROLL And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
CHARLES DICKENS And O
there are days
i this life,
worth life and
worth death
CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby
CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
CHARLES DICKENS Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world ...
MARGARET MITCHELL O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY 'Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy li...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,-- 'Tis but a name.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Tis the unexpected that makes life interesting.
ASHLYN CHASE O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
THOMAS DEKKER Return, O wanderer, now return,
And seek thy Father’s face;
Those new desires which in t...
WILLIAM BENCO COLLYER Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so
ROBERT SOUTHEY CHOCOLATE DAY POEM:
"Chocolate, dark or light..
Makes me smile bright.
Chocolate, whe...
VIKRMN 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in an...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes cha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than comm...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, ...
EMILY BRONTE 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the o...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest p...
ABRAHAM COWLEY O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.
And
Color is spelt L-O-V-E.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale-- Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is t...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity '...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The ...
BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.
ROBERT BURNS 'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I never spoke one Word to him in my Life; yet I love him so dearly, that 'tis impossible I should li...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It’s a bad case o’ the thinkin’ he’s caught, missus. When a man starts messin’ wi’ the r...
TERRY PRATCHETT O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O month when they who love must love and wed.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON (HELEN HUNT) O month when they who love must love and wed.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, ...
JOHN CHALKHILL Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are m...
GEORGE ELIOT 'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
EBENEZER ELLIOTT ("THE CORN LAW RHYMER") LOVE: L-let go and O-overcome through V-voiced E-encouragement.
RIISA RENEE I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that a...
PAULO COELHO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain a...
GEORGE ELIOT O powerful love,that in some respects makes a beast a man,in some other, a man a beast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has ...
STEPHEN FRY It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR 'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite Makes eating a delight
JOHN SUCKLING 'Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When a...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex,...
PENN JILLETTE Tis better to have love and lust
Than to let our apparatus rust.
KURT VONNEGUT If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love woul...
RUDYARD KIPLING 'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
JOHN SHEFFIELD O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are! EDWARD LEAR Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Co...
JOHN KELLS INGRAM 'Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR. 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE SR. Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that...
ROBERT FULGHUM O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as ...
WILLIAM MORRIS What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfie...
EDWARD YOUNG If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Of all the things that men may heed
'Tis most of love they sing indeed.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R. D. LAING It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
SHANNON L. ALDER Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
FRANKLIN P. JONES LOVE is only-(L)ive (O)ut positi(VE) or (L)ots (O)f +VE
ANUJ SOMANY I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. S...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains...
MEGAN MCDONALD 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are w...
WILLIAM COWPER Tis not the storms and heavy tides, that push us to and fro, "tis the course we steer her by that de...
STEPHEN ECKFIELD Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drun...
WATCHMAN NEE 'Tis after death that we measure men.
JAMES BARRON HOPE Tis after death that we measure men.
JAMES BARRON HOPE 'Tis after death that we measure men
JAMES BARRON HOPE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some...
PAULO COELHO O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis better leave for an enemy at one's death, than beg of a friend in one's life
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life ...
CARRIE RYAN We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
N.H. KLEINBAUM 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tis a commodity that will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with ’t,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, An...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is wor...
JOHNNY DEPP For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING For tis not in mere death that men die most.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O, then, what graces in my love do dwell That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.
AARON HOWARD Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and...
DENISE AUSTIN Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, ...
IZAAK WALTON 'Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.
UNKNOWN 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
LORD BYRON Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there? Wh...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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CHARLES DICKENS That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
CHARLES DICKENS The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection...
CHARLES DICKENS Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli...
CHARLES DICKENS He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h...
CHARLES DICKENS Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
CHARLES DICKENS She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
CHARLES DICKENS There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ...
CHARLES DICKENS "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."
CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer...
CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...
CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one!
CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS