The words of wisdom below were gathered from our antique books and magazines. They all can be found in my anthology,
Quotations of Quality
A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life
*Love*
"In every known sense of the word, a woman owns the man who loves her more than he owns her... She sees the situation, where he only sees her. She is as strong as all his strength, because his strength is hers. With whatever of power, or wisdom, or renown he is endowed, she also becomes posessed, and no enlargement of his borders diminishes one iota of his dependence on her for the ability to enjoy them. If there is any difference, the supreme control... is hers."
—Gail Hamilton, 1872.
Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, 1872. pp. 158-159.
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"Love is the golden key that unlocks all souls."
—Rev. A.D. Mayo, 1872.
"The Spirit of School Discipline." The National Teacher, February, 1872, p. 44.
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"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer."
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1859.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, 1859, chapter 11.
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"Great love alone is timeless amid change."
—Phillip Marston, 1894.
The Leisure Hour, 1894, p. 336.
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"There is no slavery so abject as the slavery of a man to the woman he loves. Abject, for it goes behind his will and possesses the whole man. And the more a man he is, the more strong, and bright, and free, the more thorough is his enthrallment."
—Gail Hamilton, 1872.
Woman's Worth and Worthlessness, 1872. p. 158.
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"Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. The man who doubts it, can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves; —sunrise itself is a lesser marvel."
—Henry Frédéric Amiel, 1868.
Amiel's Journal: Volume I, 1885, p. 155.
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"True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. And the being we love must not be mysterious and sphinx-like, but clear and limpid as a diamond; so that admiration and attachment may grow with knowledge."
—Henry Frédéric Amiel, 1880.
Amiel's Journal: Volume II, 1895, p. 324.
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"[F]or the one we truly love we entertain at once the highest respect, the deepest reverence, the most tender kindness and the most intense sympathy; and our keenest approbativeness is experienced in relations to that one. In that one we see the heights and depths of real beauty and genuine purity; toward that one we are peculiarly and irresistibly attracted, as iron is drawn to a magnet."
—Lyman B. Sperry, 1900.
Husband and Wife, 1900. pp. 72-73.
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Quotations of Quality
A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life
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