Inspiration Quotes, page 104

“I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”

“Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.”

“Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you.”

“Oh Agnes, oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”

“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”

“Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.”

“Women can always put things in the fewest words, except when it's blowing up; then they lengthen it out.”

“I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it. I love her against reason — but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.”

“Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I spoken, as if compelled, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?”

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“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.”

“Think, now and then, that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”

“Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.”

“True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.”

“Break their hearts, my pride and hope; break their hearts and have no mercy.”

“Friendship? Yes, please.”

“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.”

“My heart is set as firmly as ever the 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.”

“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

“I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least made me cry again inwardly — and that is the sharpest crying of all.”

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

“Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other. How glad we shall be that we have somebody we are fond of always to talk to and sit with.”

“I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.”

“The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.”

“Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.”