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Cowper “The Task”:
Myself creating what I saw

From pg. 340 of Emma, Mr. Knightley talking about Frank Churchill.

“‘Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction’”(272).

“‘I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more’”(268).

“‘How often happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!’”(264).

“‘Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. —It depends upon the character of those who handle it’”(222).

“‘It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be’”(164).

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they would do for themselves”(115).