"This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to n...
There is perfect love in Heaven!
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"I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could...
"Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my very moral perceptions should be...
"What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?
"Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and ...
"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.
"No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love wou...
"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 circumstance...
"Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who...
"I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - wh...
"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 asked...
"When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both ...
"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 acquain...
". . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
"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 ni...