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In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

The heart has its reasons, which reason knows not, as we feel in a thousand instances.

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall hardly know me.

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will

That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.

I find I want courage to marry where I do not like

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.

a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it

If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.

I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

The affectionate heart of my aunt, Catherine Porten, bewailed a sister and a friend; but my poor father was inconsolable, and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or his reason.

There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?

we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection