the courtship of mr. and mrs. dale edgar nollner

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use I ld f d h h ldh d f h

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The Courtship of:

Mr. and Mrs. Dale Edgar Nollner

~ A Gift of Love from Their Parents ~ July 24, 2010

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What a strange thing is man . . .

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. . . and what a stranger thing woman.

~Lord Byron

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I’ve looked at love . . .

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. . . from both sides now . . .

~Joni Mitchell

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I think of wonderful, exciting, decent things,

when I look at her.

~John Wayne

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He is the one that makes me laugh.

~ Happy Gilmore

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And on that cheek,

and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

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The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

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A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love

is innocent!

~ Lord Byron

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other . . . but in looking outward together . . . in the same direction.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Fall in love, . . .stay in love,

and it will decide . . . everything.

~ Pedro Arrupe

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When you fall in love, . . it is a temporary madness.

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It erupts like an earthquake.

And then, it subsides. And when it subsides, . . .

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. . . you have to make a decision.

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You have to work out

whether your roots have become so. . .

entwined together . . .

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that it is inconceivable that you should ever part

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because this is. . . . . .what love is.

~Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

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I closed my eyes and wished . . .

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a thousand wishes

and dreamed a thousand dreams

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and when I opened my eyes,

. . . they all came true,

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for all I wanted was the world

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and my world was . . .you!

~Anonymous

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Where does the family start?

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It starts with a young man

falling in love with a girl.

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No superior alternative has yet been found.

~Winston Churchill

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If you would be loved, love, . . .

and be loveable.

~Benjamin Franklin

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She has such a beautiful smile and his laugh just makes you smile and be happy with him.

~ Unknown

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This is a perfect

world.

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I'm staring in your face . . . You'll photograph mine.

~from Perfect World on the album Little Creatures

by Talking Heads

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I mean to get to know

. . .what he loves.

~Anonymous

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Love will find a way . . .

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. . .through paths

where wolves fear to prey.

~ Lord Byron

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. . .these two guys were best friends

from the very beginning . . .

~ Sean William Scott

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Love will climb mountains,

cross seas and endure untold hardships.

~ Makerere Community Church

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. . . I've given more affection

in a handshake.

~ Diego Rivera

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The eye and brain edit things out,

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so you only see the things. . .

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. . .you're interested in.

~David Bryne

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It was . . .

. . . the best of times!

~Charles Dickens, 1859

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This is the miracle

that happens every time . . .

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. . . to those who really love:

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. . . the more they give,

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. . .the more they possess.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

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I'll lean on you and you lean on me and

we'll be okay.

-- Dave Matthews Band

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She knows me too well

Knows me so well That I can tell

I really love her.

~The Beach Boys

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I will see what she sees,

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feel what she feels,

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hear what she hears,

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. . . until the very last moment.

When she dies, . . .

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I will most likely die with her, . . .

~ from The Lair of Bones by David Farland

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I have never let my schooling

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. . .interfere with my education.

~Mark Twain

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The most important thing in life is to learn

how to give out love, and to let it come in.

~Morrie Schwartz

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When we are parted,

we each feel the lack

of the other half of ourselves.

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We are incomplete . . . like a book

in two volumes

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of which the first

has been lost.

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That is what I . . . imagine love to be:

incompleteness in absence.

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Ever has it been said . . . that love knows not

its own depth until the hour of separation.

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– Kahlil Gibran

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Somewhere there waiteth

in this world of ours for one lone soul,

another lonely soul –

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Each chasing each through all the weary hours,

And meeting strangely at one sudden goal; . . .

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Then blend they –

like green leaves with golden flowers,

Into one beautiful and perfect whole.

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And life's long night is ended, and the way

Lies open onward . . .

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. . . to eternal day.

~Matthew Arnold

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My love, we will go, . . .

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we will go, I and you, . . .

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And away in the woods we will scatter the dew . . .

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~William Butler Yeats

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. . . nothing can bring back

the hour of splendor in the grass . . .

~ from the movie Splendor in the Grass

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I dreamed a dream, of love,

of life, of you, . . .

~ Anonymous

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I dreamed of a wedding

of elaborate elegance,

A church filled with family and friends.

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I asked him what kind

of a wedding he wished for,

He said one that would make me his wife.

~ Author Unknown

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~May Their Holy Union Be Forever Blessed. ~

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use

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