Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity
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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
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. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
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Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
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To love one maiden only, cleave to her,/ And worship her by years of noble deeds,/ Until they won her.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
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A maiden marries to please her parents; a widow to please herself.
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Only the good die young... The twisted ones might live for ever!
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