I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep, selfless love for someone's daughter.
In this quote, Charles Dickens articulates an unwavering and profound affection towards someone’s daughter, emphasizing the purity and sincerity of his feelings. The repeated use of 'love' in various forms underscores that his love is both strong and selfless, devoid of selfish desires, showcasing the highest form of devotion one can have for another person.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to highlight the depth of love.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.
Alas! never had I loved him so well!
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
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