A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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