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The only way to make people good, is to make them happy.
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
Give us one heart, one tongue, one faith, one love.
Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)
Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.
Poems (1859)
It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world — nay, not in the universe.
John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
"Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear," is a cynical saying, and yet less bitter than at first appears.
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)
We too should be about our father's business —
O Christ, hear us!
Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)
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