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“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”
“God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.”
“I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself an...”
“One glance he gave, one little smile at partingit was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read, a meaning that kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet arisen.”
“I returned, however, with unabated vigour to my worka more arduous task than anyone can imagine, who has not felt something like the misery of being charged with the care and direction of a set of ...”
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance that is, moderation is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some ...”
“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplati...”
“God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who conde...”
“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through th...”
“There is perfect love in Heaven!”
“. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!”
“If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.”
“If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.”
“. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.”
“And so you prefer her faults to other peoples perfections?”
“I dont know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I dont know what to make of it.”
“Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's no...”
“There is another life both for you and for me, said I. If it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy hereafter. It is His will that we should not inju...”
“After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thit...”
“Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it...”
