When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
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People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are.
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Why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long. You can never show better than as your own natural self.
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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
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Remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery.
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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
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A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
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He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
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A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
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Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
