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“My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes.”

“Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic lives was, that opinions were not acted on.”

“Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it.”

The Maid’s Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher

“Life is obstinate, and clings closest where it is most hated.”

“The cup of life was poisoned for ever; and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.”

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

“But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be—a miserable spectacle of wretched humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself.”

“I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.”

“Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.”