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There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.
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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
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Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams, and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.
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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
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Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
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The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.
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Born:
April 3, 1783
Died:
November 28, 1859
(aged 76)
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