some privileged beings can pass their lives in admiring it, and in finding, ceaselessly, the varying phenomena that enchant them
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Love is like the ocean: seen superficially, or in haste, it is called monotonous by common souls, whereas
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They played together, like children, with nothings, nothings that brought them ever back to their love, ceasing their play only to fall into a revery of the "far niente
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"Oh, my Ginevra! for now you are mine, here is our true wedding. Here," he added, "all things will smile upon us."
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Ginevra comprehended that true love could despise all vulgar protestations at such a moment.
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Ginevra would have made a noble woman had her mother been capable of guiding her studies, of enlightening her mind, and bringing into harmony her gifts of nature;
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Like all great souls, she found her luxury in strength of feeling,
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Adversity is the touchstone of character.
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In the comfort that women give there is always a delicacy which has something maternal, foreseeing, and complete about it
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she was much the prettiest, the most modest, and, apparently, the least rich among them.