Of All The Agonies Of Life, That Which Is Most Poignant And Harrowing- That
Which For The Most Time Annihilates Reason And Leaves Our Whole Organization
One Lacerated
Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that
which for the most time annihilates reason and leaves our whole organization
one lacerated, mangled heart- is the conviction that we have been
deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
-- Bulwer
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid
of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men
and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that
most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an
ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean
and beg day and night continually....