Marley

“we must love life, and cling to it; we must love the living smile, the sympathetic touch, and thrilling voice, peculiar to our mortal mechanism. Let us not, through security in hereafter, neglect the present. This present moment, short as it is, is a part of eternity, and the dearest part, since it is our own unalienably.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man

“You have sometimes wondered, my dear friend, at the extreme affection of my nature. But such is the temperature of my soul. It is not the vivacity of youth, the heyday of existence. For years have I endeavoured to calm an impetuous tide, labouring to make my feelings take an orderly course. It was striving against the stream. I must love and admire with warmth, or I sink into sadness.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

“A little patience, and all will be over.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum
Of Wisdom; hope no higher, though all the Stars Thou knew’st by name, and all th’ ethereal Powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature’s works, Or works of God in Heav’n,
Air, Earth, or Sea, And all riches of this World enjoy’dst,
And all the rule, one Empire: only add
Deeds to thy knowledge answerable,
add Faith, add Virtue, Patience, Temperance, add Love,
By name to come called Charity, the soul
Of all the rest: then wilt though not be loth
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
A paradise within thee, happier far.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost