Quotes About Devotion

She burned for two hours without changing, without bending or leaning—only glowing within, like a building fire glimpsed through silhouetted walls, like a hollow saint, like a flame faced virgin gone to God, while I read by her light, kindled, while Rimbaud in Paris burned out his brains in a thousand poems, while night pooled wetly at my feet.

actitud fundamental de esta oración es la veneración a Dios y la sensibilidad para su presencia permanente.

What is love? Love is eating twenty-four ounces of raw fish at four o'clock in the morning.

permission. When I began work on the translation long ago, it was an early and ready decision to dedicate the first volume to my wife and our only

He's your best friend, he's with you day and night, he falls in love, see you next year

A fidelity extremely rare among one's friends.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

There's always a way, if I'm committed.")

There is no friend as loyal as a book. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY

But she knew this,—that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing.

You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life.

If a husband be not master of his wife´s heart, he has no right to her fealty; if a wife ceases to love, she may cease to be true.

She probably cared but little for either of them. She was one of those women to whom it is not given by nature to care very much for anybody. But, of the two, she certainly cared the most for Mr. Dobbs Broughton, — because Mr. Dobbs Broughton belonged to her.

She had been notably religious, but that was gradually wearing off as she advanced in years. The rigid strictness of Sabbatarian practice requires the full energy of middle life.

His feelings towards his friends were, that while they stuck to him he would stick to them; that he would work with them shoulder to shoulder; that he would be faithful to the faithful. He knew nothing of the beautiful love which can be true to a false friend.

Hers was one of those feminine hearts which cling to a husband, not with idolatry, for worship can admit of no defect in its idol, but with the perfect tenacity of ivy. As the parasite plant will follow even the defects of the trunk which it embraces, so did Eleanor cling to and love the very faults of her husband.

never so solemn a hermit; but a bright face, a true trusting heart, a strong arm, and an humble mind, might do much in teaching those around him that men may be gay and yet not profligate, that women may be devout and yet not dead to the world.

There are no antiquities in my case — not even an independent curl nor a bit of loose ivory. Her insipid years have been devoted to the ironmonger, and she is now as tempting a daughter of Eve as ever made a man's heart beat uneasy beneath his sword belt. She ought to have been a sort of relative of yours, Steinmark.

One does not like to have one's little offerings of sentimental service turned into burlesque when one is in love in earnest.

on behalf of his special hobbies, he was ready to meet the world at large.

An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.

own husband. And even now, it seemed to argue so black an ingratitude on her part—this accusation that she was indifferent to them! From her childhood upwards she had revered and loved Lady Lufton, and for years had taught herself to regard her

CHAPTER LXXI 'MY OWN, OWN HUSBAND

There did not breathe a father on earth who cared less for himself or his own position.