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Nature's voice and Nature's beauty---God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul---speak to me most tenderly and most happily, at such times as th...more

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The clouds had gathered, within the last half-hour. The light was dull; the distance was dim. The lovely face of Nature met us, soft and still and col...more

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I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

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The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits ...more

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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery...more

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which ...more

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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown t...more

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Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, t...more

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Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

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If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she wou...more