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The little Love-god lying once asleep,

Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,

Whilst many nymphs that vow\'d chaste life to keep

Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand

The fairest votary took up that fire

Which many legions of true hearts had warm\'d;

And so the general of hot desire

Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarm\'d.

This brand she quenched in a cool well by,

Which from Love\'s fire took heat perpetual,

Growing a bath and healthful remedy,

For men diseas\'d; but I, my mistress\' thrall,

  Came there for cure and this by that I prove, 

  Love\'s fire heats water, water cools not love.

	--William Shakespeare

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to
see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by
peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan