I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep, selfless love for someone's daughter.
In this quote, Charles Dickens articulates an unwavering and profound affection towards someone’s daughter, emphasizing the purity and sincerity of his feelings. The repeated use of 'love' in various forms underscores that his love is both strong and selfless, devoid of selfish desires, showcasing the highest form of devotion one can have for another person.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to highlight the depth of love.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
Come away, come away, death,_x000D_ _x000D_ And in sad cypres let me be laid;_x000D_ _x000D_ Fly away, fly away, breath;_x000D_ _x000D_ I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.
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