“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
God“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
Age“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
Great“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Death“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
Jealousy“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
Happiness“Who loves, raves.”
Love“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”
Best“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Great“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”
Fear“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
God“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
Freedom“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Truth“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
Life“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”
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