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“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.”

Firsts Mother Love Is Animal Existence Delight Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.”

Way Soul Love Is Rich Delight Companion Broads Rejoice Sunny Sustaining Slopes Rugged Obstruction

Book:The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries from Published and Unpublished Sources

Source: The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries from Published and Unpublished Sources

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.”

Years Firsts Long Self Moving Joy Mother Term Love Is Animal Existence Delight Range Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Suppression Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.”

World Shows Earth Joy Growth White Love Is Sweet Birth Rose Delight Lovely Thorns Lilies Trembling Love Is Like

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.”

Children Littles Stories Age Mother Love Is Written Mirrors Strive Simplicity Folks Delight Tales Familiar Fairy Innate Children Love

Book:A story garden for little children

Source: A story garden for little children

“Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.”

Hard Love Is Principles Duty Labor Delight Supreme Ignorant Faithful Enlightened Hearted

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.”

Thinking Knows Mean Important Desire Prayer Love Is Opinion Please Important Things Delight Intimate Take Time

Author:Teresa of Avila