“ Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline (1847). copy citation
| Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Source | Evangeline |
| Topic | affection waste |
| Date | 1847 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Evangeline:_A_Tale_of_Acadie_(unsourced) |
Context
“For when the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway, Many things are made clear, that else lie hidden in darkness."
Thereupon the priest, her friend and father-confessor, Said, with a smile, "O daughter! thy God thus speaketh within thee!
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.” source
Thereupon the priest, her friend and father-confessor, Said, with a smile, "O daughter! thy God thus speaketh within thee!
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.” source
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