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He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.

My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view

Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.

I'll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

there is always a but in this imperfect world!

Severed and gone, so many years!
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee?

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

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.

...sick of mankind and their disgusting ways...

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?

I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

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.

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.

I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

Who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

You prefer her faults to other people's perfection.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

We shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it?

The best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

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.

Revenge! No - what good would that do? - it would make him no better, and me no happier.' 'I

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

As usual, I have reaped the bitter fruits of my own error- and must reap them to the end.

What can't be cured must be endured," said I,

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

I flatter myself, at times, that though among them, I am not of them

Matrimony is a serious thing.

The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

A girl's affections should never be won unsought.

Life and hope must cease together.

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

But, God knows best, I concluded.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.

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.

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?

I'll tell you a piece of news
I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

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.

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.

You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Well, let them seize on all they can;
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine.

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.

governess was not in yet; then,

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!

It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose.

Long have I dwelt forgotten here
In pining woe and dull despair;
This place of solitude and gloom
Must be my dungeon and my tomb.

Nobody knew him as I did; nobody could appreciate him as I did; nobody could love him as I - could.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live ...

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I'm not going to defile my fingers with him,' said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. 'I wouldn't touch him with the tongs.' I

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when we rest from our labours.

A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone

if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense

Well, and what was there in that?
Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?