“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
"Hyla Brook" (1920)
1920s
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Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210–1282) German mystic
[Norris, K., The Cloister Walk, Penguin Publishing Group, 1997, 978-1-101-21566-1, http://books.google.com/books?id=pZkLNwpYcJ0C&pg=PT115]
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John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
Book I, line 396
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Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
La Saisiaz.
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Adam Smith book The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Section I, Chap. V.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I