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“There is nothing in this world to fear, nothing to revere or trust, nothing even to hope for; least of all, is there aught to love.”
― R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone

“But a sigh is not (like a yawn) infectious; and we are all more prone to be sent to sleep than to sorrow by one another.”
― R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone

“The love of all things was upon me, and a softness to them all, and a sense of having something even such as they had.”
― R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone

“There was power all around, that power and that goodness, which make us come, as it were, outside our bodily selves, to share them. Over and beside us breathes the joy of hope and promise; under foot are troubles past; in the distance bowering newness tempts us ever forward. We quicken with largesse of life, and spring with vivid mystery.”
― R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone