There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone exc… - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone exc…
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well? - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is … - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is …
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools. - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.
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