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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

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Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the ...more

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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be libe...more

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Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat...more

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mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when e...more

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[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dr...more