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Honor to women! They twine and weave the roses of heaven into the life of man; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds of love; and, concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they cherish carefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy hands. Schiller.

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I have heard that love is the loadstone of love. How true it is! - Ninon de Lenclos.

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A woman should not paint sentiment until she has ceased to inspire it. Lady Blessington.

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Some sorrows which we are called upon to encounter are productive of more piquancy than grief. Mme. Récamier.

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Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

George Sand.

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Shakespeare.

A woman's fitness comes by fits.

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To have invented that character [Fielding's Amelia] is not only a triumph of art, but it is a good action.— Thackeray.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostage to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. - Bacon.

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O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile; so have all sages said, all poets sung. — Jean Ingelow.

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A woman submits to the yoke of opinion, but a man rebels. De Finod.

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I have a great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation, through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.—Mrs. Jameson.

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Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

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Tennyson.

Her person is such [Wordsworth's sister] that if you expected to see a pretty woman, you might think her rather ordinary; but if you expected to find an ordinary woman, you would think her pretty, so simple are her manners, so ardent, so impressive, and in every motion her most innocent soul beams out so brightly. Coleridge.

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Ladies whose bright eyes rain influence. - Milton.

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The fact that men have been so much more highly educated in literature and science than women causes the unjust discrimination in giving men the most honorable and remunerative positions even in female schools. - Catherine E. Beecher.

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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. Goldsmith.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom: to serve all and to love but one. - Balzac.

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Whatever may be the original equality of the sexes in intellect and capacity, it is evident that it was intended by God that they should move in different spheres, and of course that their powers should be developed in different directions. Rev. G. W. Burnap.

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The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. - Holmes.

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Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath not more ease, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Jeremy Taylor.

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life. Douglas Ferrold.

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She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

Burke.

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Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.-Mme. du Deffand.

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The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate. When it is durable, it is serene and equable. Even its famous pains begin only with the ebb of love, for few are indeed lovers, though all would fain be.

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Love is the only passion which we can carry with us

beyond the grave.

Mme. Necker.

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It is to be considered that this passion [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old, or rather suffers no one who is truly its servant to grow old, but makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden, though in a different and nobler sort. — Emerson.

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A light wife doth make a heavy husband. speare.

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Shake

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the willful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes, — the vulgar. Leigh Hunt.

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To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. - Diderot.

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Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. - Boiste.

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They say Fortune is a woman, and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. George Eliot.

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Women cherish fashion because it rejuvenates them, or at least renews them.- Mme. de Puisieux.

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Every man, like Narcissus, becomes enamored of the reflection of himself, only choosing a substance instead of a shadow. His love for any particular woman is self-love at second hand, vanity reflected, compound egotism. Horace Smith.

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School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman. This done, a good school is a source of inestimable advantage for cultivating the intellect, and aiding the acquisition of knowledge. - Harriet Martineau.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. — Young.

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It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of woman. As men become aware that few men have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. -Margaret Fuller Ossoli.

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It will not hurt woman to be criticised. She has too long been assured of her angelhood, and denied her womanhood. It will not help her very greatly to be criticised as if she were being tomahawked. If they who come to scoff would but remain to teach!

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- Mrs. L. G. Calhoun.

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

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Lord Lyttelton.

Women, whose province it seems to be to bear and forbear, are quite as capable of endurance as men. In the blood-stained stories of war there is none, perhaps, that more enlists our hearts than that of the woman who put on male attire to follow her lover to the fight, stood by his side when he fell, and then braved death rather than be parted from his dead body. — Samuel Smiles.