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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

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• Romance

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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• Life

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

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• Happiness

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

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• Love

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

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• Life

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

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• Inspirational

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

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• Love

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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• Education

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

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• Love

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

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• Inspirational

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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• Life

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

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• Inspirational

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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• Love

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

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• Inspirational

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

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• Love

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

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• Love

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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• Life

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

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• Inspirational