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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly rest...more

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She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

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The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break for...more

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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes...more

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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes...more

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Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows up...more