We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen VictoriaRead
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Interpretation
Marriage provides a unique sense of identity and status.
Queen Victoria's quote reflects the profound impact that marriage has on an individual's sense of belonging and identity. It suggests that the bond created through marriage establishes a clear and definitive role for individuals that is unrivaled by any other relationship or status in life.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of the marital bond.
We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.
Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.
Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.
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