"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."
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"I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine."
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"I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win."
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"Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken."
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"Alas! never had I loved him so well!"
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"Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear."
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"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."
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"Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein."
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"I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment."
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"A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play."
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"Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy."
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"You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it."
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"I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?"
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"To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking."
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"Your will shall decide your destiny."
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"His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day."
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"Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."
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"Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord."
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