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Youth is perpetual intoxication ; ' tis the fever of reason . La Rochefoucauld . What in our view marks the full development of man- hood , and dissevers it totally from the states of boyhood and youth , is a sustained self - mastery ...
Youth is perpetual intoxication ; ' tis the fever of reason . La Rochefoucauld . What in our view marks the full development of man- hood , and dissevers it totally from the states of boyhood and youth , is a sustained self - mastery ...
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... La Rochefoucauld . Grace in a woman gains the affections sooner and secures them longer than anything else ; it is an outward and visible sign of an inward harmony of soul , as the want of it in men is the greatest impediment in a ...
... La Rochefoucauld . Grace in a woman gains the affections sooner and secures them longer than anything else ; it is an outward and visible sign of an inward harmony of soul , as the want of it in men is the greatest impediment in a ...
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... La Rochefoucauld . Persons in the higher ranks of society , so exposed to ennui , are either rendered totally incapable of real love , or they love far more intensely than those in a lower station . ' Tis better to have loved and lost ...
... La Rochefoucauld . Persons in the higher ranks of society , so exposed to ennui , are either rendered totally incapable of real love , or they love far more intensely than those in a lower station . ' Tis better to have loved and lost ...
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... La Rochefoucauld . There is nothing but death Our affections can sever , And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever . Percival . The lover now , beneath the western star , Sighs 42 LOVE .
... La Rochefoucauld . There is nothing but death Our affections can sever , And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever . Percival . The lover now , beneath the western star , Sighs 42 LOVE .
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... La Rochefoucauld . No after friendships e'er can raise The endearments of our early days , And ne'er the heart such fondness prove As when we first began to love . Logan . Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my breast . Where'er thou ...
... La Rochefoucauld . No after friendships e'er can raise The endearments of our early days , And ne'er the heart such fondness prove As when we first began to love . Logan . Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my breast . Where'er thou ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth