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Page 329 - There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity ; but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Page 362 - I shall conclude these iambics with the motto of this paper, which is a fragment of the same author. ' A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one.
Page 378 - She's beautiful and therefore to be wooed ; She is a woman, therefore to be won." ist Henry VI. act v. sc. 3. " A BEAUTIFUL woman," remarked Napo/~\. Icon, " pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart ; one is a jewel, the other a treasure.
Page 392 - Tis the Star- Spangled Banner! O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Page 128 - The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it.
Page 1 - WILL STAND FOR A REASON. When a man's life is in debate, no deliberation is too long. Fool, so a slave is a man ! He may have done nothing deserving of death; I grant it, I will it, I insist on it! My will; let that, sir, for a reason stand. WOMEN. There is scarcely a single cause in which a woman is not in some way engaged in fomenting the suit. " Women's jars breed men's wars.
Page 14 - Nature's fault, not man's. Aspasia and Adelina Patti were born, not made. In all eras and all climes a woman of great genius or of great beauty has done what she chose ; and if the majority of women have led obscure lives, so have the majority of men. The chief part of humanity is insignificant, whether it be male or female. In most people there is very little character indeed, and as little mind. Those who have much never...
Page 256 - THE world was sad ! the garden was a wild, The man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled.
Page 187 - THERE will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth.
Page 265 - The woman must not belong to herself ; she is bound to alien destinies. But she performs her part best who can take freely of her own choice the alien to her heart, can bear and foster it with sincerity and love. THE VOICE OF FATE. Piccol. in. 8. 82. 3)et 3ug beS ^erjcua ift bc<S <Sd)irffal