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I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmèd sight,
What may not bless my waking eyes.

— Anne Brontë

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At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

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I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!

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It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.

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It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.

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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

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