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“There is perfect love in Heaven!”
“But, God knows best, I concluded.”
“No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”
“There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.”
“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
“I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusements; he was very much distressed about you destroying the birds.''When Master Bloomfield's amusemen...”
“I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to o...”
“Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.”
“how shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man -- my greatest enemy -- for none could injure me as he has done? Oh! when I think how fondly, how foolishly I...”
“But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, t...”
“But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.”
“I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.”
“I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.”
“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the troubl...”
“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
“The rose I gave you was an emblem of myheart,' said she; 'would you take it away andleave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I askedit?' 'Have I not said enough?”
“The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it.”
“We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best...”
“That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.”
“He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought ...”
