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Adoration isn't love.
There is perfect love in heaven!
But, God knows best, I concluded.
Life and hope must cease together.
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
A girl's affections should never be won unsought.
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.
the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.
Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation
He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.
My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.