A simple, fireside thing, whose quiet smile
Can warm earth's poorest hovel to a home.
Love. J.R. LOWELL.
He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him;
King John, Act ii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him she obeys him;
Though she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other!
Hiawatha, Pt. X. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Man is but half without woman; and
As do idolaters their heavenly gods,
We deify the things that we adore.
Festus. P.J. BAILEY.
Let still the woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart,
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,
Than women's are.
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Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
Twelfth Night, Act ii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
Taming of the Shrew, Act v. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
And truant husband should return, and say.
"My dear, I was the first who came away."
Don Juan, Canto I. LORD BYRON.
With thee conversing I forget all time;
All seasons and their change, all please alike.