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A woman despises a man for loving her, unless she happens to return his love.

— Elizabeth Drew Stoddard Two Men: A Novel (1865)

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Comfort is tedious when it lasts too long.

Two Men: A Novel (1865)

The country is crazy with barrenness, and the sea mocks it with its terrible beauty.

The Morgesons (1862)

The desolation of winter sustains our frail hopes. Nature is kindest then; she does not taunt us with fruition. It is the luxury of summer which tantalizes—her long, brilliant, blossoming days, her dewy, radiant nights.

The Morgesons (1862)

Never does the soul feel so far from human life as when a man finds himself alone in the vistas of the moon, either in the streets of a sleeping city, the avenues of the woods, or by the border of the sea. Earth, swayed perhaps by her powerful satellite, withdraws her sympathy from him and he wanders in a white void, wondering if he was born to be thus annulled.

Two Men: A Novel (1865)

I hail the seasons as they go,
I woo the sunshine, brave the wind,
I scan the lily and the rose,
I nod to every nodding tree,
I follow every stream that flows,
And wait beside the steadfast sea.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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