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absorbing passion I should have loved you
I loved you with an all-absorbing passion; I should have loved you if you had been a poor girl selling flowers in the streets, and I would have knelt to you if you had been such an one as humbly as I knelt to Violet Graham, the wealthy heiress, with all the world at her beck and nod!
— from Wild Margaret by Charles Garvice

aspiration persevered in secret has led you
Your constant aspiration persevered in secret has led you to that point where just these troubles come to all.
— from Letters That Have Helped Me by Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley

Apostle Paul intimates saying Husbands love your
Hence the Council of Trent, speaking of Matrimony, says: “Christ Himself, the Institutor and Perfector of the venerable sacraments, merited for us by His passion the grace which might perfect that natural love, and confirm that indissoluble union, and sanctify the married; as the Apostle Paul intimates, saying: ‘Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself for it;’ adding shortly after: ‘This is a great sacrament, but I speak in Christ and in the Church.’ (Ephes.
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons


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