“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable”
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“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable”
“There's life in the old dog yet.”
“Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit”
“Life is a flower of which love is the honey”
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ”
“I want you for always-- days, years, eternities”
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever”
“If our two loves be one, or thou and I love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die”
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ”
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”
“Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.”
“O tell her, life is brief but love is long. ”
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love ”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ”
“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time”
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions ”
“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine”