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Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
The old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Virginibus Puerisque (1881)
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.
And my heart springs up anew,
Bright and confident and true,
And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.
All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Aes Triplex (1878)
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
I who all the Winter through,
Cherished other loves than you
And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew;
Now I know the false and true,
For the earnest sun looks through,
And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.