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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthes into heaven is the beating of a loving heart. —Beecher. 196

A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable. Shakespeare.

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An infant, a sweet, new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth. - Gerald Massey.

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A true history of the world is also a record of the wrongs of woman. Her happiness, her sorrows, and her misfortunes are not estimated as they should be. She deserves heaven as a compensation for her bad treatment on earth. Dr. J. V. C. Smith.

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We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb?- George Eliot.

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Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year it is well. - Rev. T. Adams.

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The rose is fair, but fairer it we deem for that sweet odor which doth in it live. Shakespeare.

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But common clay taken from the common earth, moulded by God, and tempered by the tears of angels, to the perfect form of woman. - Tennyson.

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No mother can wash or suckle her baby without having a "set" towards washing and suckling impressed upon the molecules of her brain; and this set, according to the laws of hereditary transmission, is passed on to her daughter. Tyndall.

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The fragrant infancy of opening flowers flowed to my senses in that meeting kiss.

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Southern.

Nothing makes love sweeter and tenderer than a little previous scolding and freezing, just as the grape-clusters acquire by a frost before vintage thinner skins and better flavor. Richter.

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Perhaps there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women, who are not jealous of each other's charms. Beaconsfield.

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A woman tinctured with affectation sooner displays what she really is than what she assumes to be. Stanislaus.

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The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven while he pursued her as a star; she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. — Emerson.

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There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it. Bulwer-Lytton.

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The weaknesses of women have been given them to call forth the virtues of men.

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- Mme. Necker.

I have marked a thousand blushing apparitions to start into her face; a thousand innocent shames, in angel whiteness, bear away those blushes. Shakespeare.

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Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more. - Lemesles.

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In her first passion, woman loves her lover; in all the others, all she loves is love. Byron.

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Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty. - Massias.

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Love is a flame which burns in heaven, and whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love that we double our being; it is by love that we approach God. — Aimé-Martin.

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If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone restore it. Whittier.

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The life of woman can never be seen in its outward form, much less in its inner. But the best preparation for both is the careful preparation of womanhood, - her natural inheritance. The word is undefinable. It is seen in the weakness that needs to lean upon, to trust, to confide, to reverence, and to serve, as much as it is seen in the strength that enables her to endure, to protect, to defend, and support. - Samuel Smiles.

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There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures, - that they possess at once great promptness and unskillfulness in falsehood. Alphonse Daudet.

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Though we were certainly not sent into the world solely to supplement men's lives, and to have no original objects of our own, still we cannot do without their liking; and it is only right that we should set our watches by their time. They are clearer headed than we; less prejudiced, if less conscientious; more generous when generous, and more tender when tender. - E. Lynn Lynton.

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Woman, by nature enthusiastic of the good and the beautiful, hallows all that she surrounds with her love. Alfred Mercier.

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I am not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets, since the creation of the world, in praise of women, were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.- Abraham Lincoln.

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Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them. - Beaumarchais.

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They say women and music should never be dated. — Goldsmith.

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The bearing and training of a child is woman's wisdom. Tennyson.

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Do not shorten the beautiful veil of mist covering childhood's futurity by too hastily drawing away; but permit that joy to be of early commencement and of long duration, which lights up life so beautifully. The longer the morning dew remains hanging in the blossoms of flowers, the more beautiful the day. - Richter.

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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. George Eliot.

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Even in the lovely sex, who has not remarked how painful is that period of a woman's life when she is passing out of her bloom, and thinking about giving up her position as a beauty? What sad injustice and stratagems. she has to perpetrate during the struggle! - Thackeray.

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There is something still worse to be dreaded than a Jesuit, and that is a Jesuitess. — Eugene Sue.

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Blushes, luminous escapes of thought.-Moore.

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Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn nor the other wound those that come not too near them. Cervantes.

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Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. Whittier.

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Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry. - Mrs. Browning.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. - Balzac.

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Next to God we are indebted to woman, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. - Bovée.

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If you describe a right woman in a laudable sense, she should have gentle softness, tender fear, and all those parts of life which distinguish her from the other sex; with some subordination to it, but such an inferiority that makes her still more lovely. - Steele.

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The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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Lamartine.

Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never.

- Beauchêne.

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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. - Mlle. de Scudéri.

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Women of the world know that, however great firmness may be, persistency is greater. - Ninon de Lenclos.