Rhode Island American And Gazette

Disappointment in Love.—People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love, by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it.— If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in our mind. It is the nature of all passions and of all habitual affection.— We throw ourselves upon it as a venture, that we cannot return at choice. If it is a wife that has proved unworthy, men compassionate the loss, because there is a tie, they say, which we cannot get rid of. But has the heart no ties? Or, if it is a child, they understand it.— But is not true love a child? Or, when another has become a part of ourselves, "where we must live or have no life at all," can we tear them from us in an instant? No, these bargains are for life; and that for which our souls have sighed for years, cannot be forgotten in a breath and without a pang.—Hazlitt.