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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.