books about healing a broken heart
the broken heart. i never heardof any true affection, but 't was nipt with care, that, like the caterpillar, eatsthe leaves of the spring's sweetest book, the rose.middleton. it is a common practice with those who haveoutlived the susceptibility of early feeling, or have been brought up in the gay heartlessnessof dissipated life, to laugh at all love stories, and to treat the tales of romantic passionas mere fictions of novelists and poets. my observations on human nature have inducedme to think otherwise. they have convinced me that, however the surface of the charactermay be chilled and frozen by the cares of the world, or cultivated into mere smilesby the arts of society, still there are dormant fires lurking in the depths of the coldestbosom, which, when once enkindled, become impetuous, and are sometimes desolating intheir effects. indeed, i am a true believer in the blind deity, and go to the full extentof his doctrines. shall i confess it?—i believe in broken hear