3288 Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother in those six appellations lies what the human heart contains of the sweetest and most delightful, the most sacred, the purest, and the most inexpressible. Massias. 3289 Tears are the overflow of softened hearts. Mme. Swetchine. 3290 It is difficult for a woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in—when it is always supposed that she must be contemptible. - George Eliot. 3291 Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. Shakespeare. 3292 What smiles! They were the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage; they lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken gray eye, like reflections from the aspect of an angel. — Charlotte Brontë. 3293 Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — Shakespeare. 3294 - The so-called lady-like accomplishments are, at most, but garlands of flowers by which Cupid may be bound; but Hymen, who breaks through these and garlands of fruit also, is best guided and held by the golden official chain of domestic capability. — Richter. 3295 A smile that glowed celestial rosy-red, love's proper People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other. -Rochefoucauld. 3297 Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty. Sir P. Sidney. 3298 Conjugal love is the metempsychosis of woman. Mme. de Salm. 3299 Love is the union of a want and a sentiment. - Balzac. 3300 If you would train a maid to live in town, breed her not in the country. Sheridan Knowles. 3301 Her hand, in whose comparison all whites are ink. Shakespeare. The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse. - N. P. Willis. 3305 Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little of woman's right tried first, and then if the experience is bad we can go back on our track; if the experience is good, we can go forward. Let us be conservative, but let us not be unimprovable. Rev. Joseph Cook. 3306 A coquette is one who draws a check on the bank of affection where she has no deposit. — Dumas père. 3307 It is a great temptation, in these days of fresh activities, for women to leave the more confined field of home duty, and take a place among the workers in apparently more extended spheres of usefulness. But it is, in most instances, a mere exchange of a birthright for a mess of pottage. The glory is very poor — very evanescent; the struggles, the pains, the sorrows, the heart-breaks, in full measure; the loss of sweet home associations and memories, very real and very sure. — Mrs. J. C. Croly. 3308 The French woman is either the best or worst of her sex. Michelet. 3309 A woman's life is her love. She does not begin to live until she begins to love. - Florence Marryat. 3310 Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current ; and the good thereof consists in mutual and partaken bliss, unsavory in the enjoyment of itself. -Milton. 3311 Persons in the higher ranks of society, so exposed to ennui, are either rendered totally incapable of real love, or they love far more intensely than those in a lower station. Bulwer-Lytton. 3312 The pleasure of love is in loving. - Rochefoucauld. 3313 The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which, at times, becomes almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo. 3314 Public praise has no power to fill up a woman's heart. She wants home love, and duties, and sympathy; all the rest is worth nothing without them!— Florence Marryat. 3315 In women, love once admitted engrosses all the sources of thought, and excludes every object but itself; but in men it is shared with all the former reflections and feelings which the past yet bequeaths us, and can neither constitute the whole of our happiness or woe. The love of man in his mature years is not so much a new emotion as a revival and concentration of all his departed affections towards others. - Bulwer-Lytton. 3316 A few drops of woman's rheum, which are as cheap as lies. Shakespeare. 3317 Women invoke reason, but listen to their hearts. Bruyère. 3318 Love is a harmony dropped from heaven. - George Sand. 3319 Love is of the nature of a burning-glass, which, kept still in one place, fireth; changed often it doth nothing. -Suckling. 3320 There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving. 3321 Not whom you marry, but how much you marry, is the real question among the Hon. Tom Shuffletons of every age.-Whipple. 3322 The reason that lovers are never weary of being together is because they are always talking of themselves. -Rochefoucauld. 3323 A woman's power is for love, not for battles; and her intellect is not invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their claims, and their places. Her great function is praise; she enters into no contest, but infallibly judges the crown of contest. - Ruskin. 3324 In joining contrasts lieth love's delight. Sheridan Knowles. 3325 Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. ·Shakespeare. 3326 Love with men is not a sentiment but an idea. — Mme. de Girardin. 3327 In many ways does the full heart reveal the presence of the love it would conceal. - Coleridge. 3328 It is not so much what women say as it is what they do not say but look, that wins us. — Alfred de Musset. The world is governed by love - self-love. - Rivarol. 3331 The heart must be emphasized, for a heartless woman is a terror in society. — Rev. J. D. Fulton. 3332 She moves the queen of her own quiet home. Mark Trafton. 3333 Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy doth call himself affection's sentinel. Shakespeare. |