Love
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10.Love of country and community
10a.Love of country and native land
Aeschylus, AgamemnonVol. 8
- p. 26–28Love for country returned: the land craved them as they craved it, love for love.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 162–165Sordello's affection for fellow countryman Virgil moves Dante to lament Italy's divisions.read · scan
- p. 166–167Sordello's glad greeting of a countryman at the mere name of his land contrasts with Italians at war within one wall.read · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 56–57He acted out of pure love for his country and pilgrims.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Life of Addison, 1672-1719Vol. 27
- p. 187Love of country is the love of countrymen, ordered by nearness of acquaintance, friendship and kinship.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 184–185Love of the little platoon is the first link toward love of country and mankind.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 238–239Ties of love and friends bind his heart to home.read · scan
- p. 362–363Devoted love of native land, the heart lingering in the Highlands.read · scan
William Wordsworth, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 668–670Speaker's fondness for Lucy, whose possible death he fears, and her unnoticed life and loss, with love of England.read · scan
- p. 670–672Poet's love for England grows more after travelling, and for Lucy, mourned after death.read · scan
Charles Tennyson Turner, PoemsVol. 41
- p. 921Child kisses England, finding her home there.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1390Love of country expressed as a lover's devotion, daring whatever is asked.read · scan
10b.Love as the bond of society and state
Confucius, The Sayings of ConfuciusVol. 44
- p. 9Without love, courtesy and music are meaningless.read · scan
- p. 36–37Love is conquering self and turning to courtesy; shown in courteous eye, ear, word and deed.read · scan
- p. 46–47Kuan Chung's service in uniting nobles without war is defended as love.read · scan
- p. 57To cherish a gem and undo the kingdom is not love.read · scan
Pliny the Younger, Letters of PlinyVol. 9
- p. 331–332Affection secures obedience even in the ruler's absence, while fear turns to hatred.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 175–179Conrad says the love he bore his people is now refined in Purgatory.read · scan
Niccolò Machiavelli, The PrinceVol. 36
- p. 55Argues whether a prince is better loved or feared; love rests on obligation that selfish men break, whereas fear holds; avoid hatred.read · scan
- p. 55–56Concludes the love-or-fear question: being loved depends on subjects, being feared on the prince, so rely on one's own power while avoiding hatred.read · scan
Ambroise Paré, Journeys in Diverse PlacesVol. 38
- p. 55–56The marquis is loved by nobles and commoners for his generosity, courtesy and kindness.read · scan
- p. 56Townsmen and peasants show affection for the marquis, competing to carry him and praying for him.read · scan
Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and MoralVol. 3
- p. 9–11Says the dead are loved once envy ends ('shall be loved when he is gone'); incidental mention of affection.read · scan
Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George HerbertVol. 15
- p. 401–402Mutual love and joint prayer between priest and people make a congregation like Jerusalem at peace.read · scan
William Penn, Some Fruits of SolitudeVol. 1
- p. 350–351Princes foolishly prefer being feared to being loved.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 328Love of the whole is trained through subordinate partialities to family, neighbourhood and province.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 242–244Masonic invocation asks that brotherly love be the centre of the lodge, keeping out contention and envy.read · scan
Articles of ConfederationVol. 43
- p. 158States enter a firm league of friendship for mutual assistance.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Man the ReformerVol. 5
- p. 55–56Love is the one remedy for all ills; kindness rather than distrust would transform society and win over the felon.read · scan
- p. 56–57Love and kindness, gentle like the pushing mushroom, achieve what force and armies cannot; all men will one day be lovers.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 94Infractions of love and equity in social relations are punished, and simple relations allow perfect mutual interpenetration.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, MannersVol. 5
- p. 210Heartiness and sympathy are society's secret of success; Fox's real love of men moved the House to tears.read · scan
- p. 211Insists love and benevolence are the true basis of courtesy.read · scan
- p. 214–215Women whose presence inspires courtesy and loosens tongues, like the Persian Lilla, radiating joy and reconciling persons into society.read · scan
- p. 217The heart of love is the fountain of honor and true courtesy, outranking fashion and conquering all it approaches.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, PoliticsVol. 5
- p. 248–249The power of love as the basis of a State has never been tried; a nation of friends might do better.read · scan
- p. 250Renovating the State on principle of right and love is dismissed as air-pictures, though youth hold it possible.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersVol. 5
- p. 258–259Only love, only an idea, is against property as we hold it.read · scan
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's First Inaugural AddressVol. 43
- p. 322Plea that we are friends, not enemies, bound by affection and the mystic chords of memory.read · scan
John Ruskin, Sesame and LiliesVol. 28
- p. 129A king's dominion should be measured in degrees of love, whether his people love and live by him.read · scan
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