“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“Then talk not of Inconstancy,
False Hearts, and broken Vows;
If I, by Miracle, can be
This live-long Minute true to thee,
‘Tis all that Heav’n allows.”
Love and Life, ll. 11-15.
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To all always open;
To all always true.”
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