Part 83 (2/2)
Where you are not appreciated, you cannot be loved
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When people fall in love at first sight, they often live to regret that they didn't take another look
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”I'o above you; Because”--the brown eyes lower fell-- ”Because, you see, I love you!”
--_John Greenleaf Whittier_
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Where there is love, all things interest; where there is indifference, minute details are tedious, disbelief is cherished, and trifles are apt to be thought contemptible
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If he loves me, the merit is not mine; my fault will be if he ceases
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LOVE
To a s: it wounds sos of tenderness--it blasts so; he hts in the whirl of varied occupation, or e into the tide of pleasure; or, if the scene of disappointment be too full of painful associations, he can shi+ft his abode at will, and taking, as it were, the wings of the , can ”fly to the uttermost parts of the earth, and be at rest”
But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded and a meditative life
She is s; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrohere shall she look for consolation?
Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is her world--is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate
Shall I confess it?--I believe in broken hearts, and the possibility of dying of disappointed love! I do not, however, consider it a malady often fatal to my own sex; but I firmly believe that it withers down rave So is it the nature of wos of wounded affection
--_Washi+ngton Irving_
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
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WHAT!