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title: "Inspiring Surrender Sayings"
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> [I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/i-do-not-think-that-g-h-hardy-was-talking-nonsense-when-he-insisted-2/)

[Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brand-blanshard/)

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> [“surrender is the glad and voluntary acknowledgment that there is a God and it is not me. His purposes are often wiser…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ortberg/surrender-is-the-glad-and-voluntary-acknowledgment-that-there-is-a/)

[John Ortberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ortberg/)

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> [If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/if-the-gospel-isn-t-good-news-for-everybody-then-it-isn-t-good-news-2/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [“Alexa, I have never been more alive in all these years than I am right now, with you.” He paused, second-guessing himself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trina-m-lee/alexa-i-have-never-been-more-alive-in-all-these-years-than-i-am-right/)

[Trina M. Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/trina-m-lee/)

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> [There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-michael-straczynski/there-is-a-greater-darkness-than-the-one-we-fight-it-is-the-darkness/)

[J. Michael Straczynski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-michael-straczynski/)

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> [The way to a beautiful, strong, healthy body is to start by trusting yourself right now. Let go of the struggle and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shakti-gawain/the-way-to-a-beautiful-strong-healthy-body-is-to-start-by-trusting/)

[Shakti Gawain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shakti-gawain/)

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> [But surrender also means your back's to the wall and saying, "Okay, I give up." But rather it's a joyful self-offering. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/goswami-kriyananda/but-surrender-also-means-your-back-s-to-the-wall-and-saying-okay-i/)

[Goswami Kriyananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/goswami-kriyananda/)

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> [Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-ehrmann/wishing-you-happiness-always-go-placidly-amid-the-noise-and-the-haste/)

[Max Ehrmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-ehrmann/)

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> [We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/we-shall-defend-our-island-whatever-the-cost-may-be-we-shall-fight-on-2/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashley-judd/when-i-allow-myself-to-feel-all-my-feelings-instead-of-numbing-myself/)

[Ashley Judd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashley-judd/)

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> [“I don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at you. To dodge your skin in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kamand-kojouri/i-don-t-know-why-we-fight-it-takes-much-too-effort-to-stay-mad-at-you/)

[Kamand Kojouri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kamand-kojouri/)

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> [...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/people-don-t-respect-the-morning-an-alarm-clock-violently-wakes-them/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [“People think that it is in the tangle of bodies, in the actual congress, that one person invades another and takes possession…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-bartlett/people-think-that-it-is-in-the-tangle-of-bodies-in-the-actual/)

[Neil Bartlett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-bartlett/)

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> [Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-temple/worship-is-the-submission-of-all-our-nature-to-god-it-is-the/)

[William Temple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-temple/)

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> [For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/for-isildur-would-not-surrender-it-to-elrond-and-c-rdan-who-stood-by/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-buber/i-have-learned-a-new-form-of-service-from-the-wars-of-frederick-king/)

[Martin Buber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-buber/)

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> [When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-w-jackson/when-one-hears-the-word-meditation-it-conjures-an-image-of-maharishi/)

[E.W. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-w-jackson/)

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> [Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syama-prasad-mukherjee/whatever-work-you-undertake-do-it-seriously-thoroughly-and-well-never/)

[Syama Prasad Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syama-prasad-mukherjee/)

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> [Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kornfield/peace-requires-us-to-surrender-our-illusions-of-control-we-can-love/)

[Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kornfield/)

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> [Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/humanly-speaking-it-is-possible-to-understand-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/in-some-inland-post-feel-the-savagery-the-utter-savagery-had-closed/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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> [“And it will be a great boon to your friend. He’ll get the security he’s been searching for, the confidence he never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-michaels/and-it-will-be-a-great-boon-to-your-friend-he-ll-get-the-security-he/)

[Lydia Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-michaels/)

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> [There's a big difference in Trump and previous Republicans. They have a strategy known as surrender. When the media starts coming after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/there-s-a-big-difference-in-trump-and-previous-republicans-they-have/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josef-pieper/unchaste-abandon-and-the-self-surrender-of-the-soul-to-the-world-of/)

[Josef Pieper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josef-pieper/)

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> [The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/the-idea-of-curious-yellow-of-surrender-to-a-higher-cause-seems-to/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

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> [You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/you-wrote-me-a-beautiful-letter-i-wonder-if-you-meant-it-to-be-as/)

[Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/)

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> [I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/i-m-astounded-whenever-i-finish-something-astounded-and-distressed-my/)

[Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/)

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> [So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/so-the-color-purple-changed-my-life-it-changed-everything-about-my/)

[Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/)

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> [“The boxes stood there, judging her. Who came up with the names for these things? Early Pregnancy Test was fine, but First…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-kent/the-boxes-stood-there-judging-her-who-came-up-with-the-names-for/)

[Julia Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-kent/)

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> [“ANY REAL CHANGE IMPLIES THE breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/any-real-change-implies-the-breakup-of-the-world-as-one-has-always-4/)

[James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/)

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> [“Possibly, he’d been right in waiting to go any further. Because tomorrow, inevitably, she would look back on tonight and regret letting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-bailey/possibly-he-d-been-right-in-waiting-to-go-any-further-because/)

[Tessa Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-bailey/)

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> [Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/love-is-about-bottomless-empathy-born-out-of-the-heart-s-revelation/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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> [Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/jesus-example-of-fidelity-to-prayer-challenges-us-to-examine-the-time/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-lin/there-is-so-much-temptation-to-hold-on-to-my-career-even-more-now-to/)

[Jeremy Lin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-lin/)

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> [Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-hart/slowly-gently-night-unfurls-its-splendor-grasp-it-sense-it-tremulous/)

[Charles Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-hart/)

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> [I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-did-not-understand-that-she-was-hiding-her-feelings-under-irony/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/to-read-is-to-surrender-oneself-to-an-endless-displacement-of/)

[David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/)

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> [At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/at-the-level-of-spirit-everything-is-always-unfolding-perfectly-and/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [“She would fain claim him fully, without giving up herself fully to him; but it can never be: while she retains her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hudson-taylor/she-would-fain-claim-him-fully-without-giving-up-herself-fully-to-him/)

[James Hudson Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hudson-taylor/)

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> [“On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/on-no-work-of-words-on-no-work-of-words-now-for-three-lean-months-in/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

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                        "text": "“surrender is the glad and voluntary acknowledgment that there is a God and it is not me. His purposes are often wiser and better than our desires. Jesus does not come to rearrange the outside of our life the way we want. He comes to rearrange the inside of our life the way God wants. In surrender, I let go of my life. It is a Copernican revolution of the soul in which I take myself out of the center of the universe and place God there. I yield to Him. I offer obedience. I do what he says.”",
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                        "text": "If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.",
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                        "text": "“Alexa, I have never been more alive in all these years than I am right now, with you.” He paused, second-guessing himself, and I turned my face to plant an encouraging kiss in the palm of his hand. “You are the only light in my dark world. All I see is you.” I closed my eyes, the emotion overcoming me in its immensity. His next words came low, barely a whisper. Yet, I heard them as clearly as if they’d been shouted at me. “I love you. You have given back to me everything I thought I’d lost forever.” His voice carried a note of surrender. I opened my eyes to find him staring at me, hope evident in his expression. “How you feel, Arys, it isn’t one sided.” I placed my hand over his, drawing it to my chest where my heart beat steadily. “Don’t say it,” he said, placing a finger over my lips. “You love the white wolf.” Knocking his finger away, I rose up on tiptoes to better look him in the eyes. “I do. And, he has his own place within me. As do you.” He wanted to believe me, but Arys didn’t know how to be loved any better than I had just a few months ago. I understood how hard it was to trust fully. I’d been there. I still was.”",
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                        "text": "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.",
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                        "text": "The way to a beautiful, strong, healthy body is to start by trusting yourself right now. Let go of the struggle and surrender to your body's needs. Your intuition will tell you what to eat. It may direct you to exercise vigorously, in which case you'll enjoy it, or it may tell you to slow down and rest. It may tell you to stay in bed all day, or it may tell you to get up early. There are no rigid rules. Your body knows perfectly well what's good for it.",
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                        "text": "But surrender also means your back's to the wall and saying, \"Okay, I give up.\" But rather it's a joyful self-offering. When you come to the point of realizing that \"I never get it right. I always make a mess of things; I can't do anything right. Let him do it.\" And then you ask his power to do it through you and you find suddenly that it works that way.",
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                        "text": "Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.",
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                        "text": "We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.",
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                        "text": "When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was \"OK, damn it.\" But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.",
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                        "text": "“I don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at you. To dodge your skin in the hallway and leave the kitchen without bringing you a treat. It takes much too effort to stare at the sink so my eyes don’t smile at you in the mirror. It takes much too effort to look away as we undress and lie apart in the now bigger bed. It takes much too effort to stiffen my body because sleepy limbs forget fights and pride is always lost in dreams. It takes much too effort to awaken every hour to make sure we are islands with a gulf of white sheets separating us. I dread the light peeking through the parted curtains and empathise with your groans — I didn’t get any sleep either. I really don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at one another when it’s so easy for us to love.”",
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                        "text": "...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.",
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                        "text": "“People think that it is in the tangle of bodies, in the actual congress, that one person invades another and takes possession of them; that it is on the bed that we give ourselves up. Well it is true that there is a surrender there that is unlike any other, but the real time they get under your skin is when you spend these hours alone preparing for them; imagining them. The hours when you find yourself wondering if these sheets would be too hot with two people under them. Or when you lie there on your back with both eyes open, as Mr F lies now, in the desperate early hours of that Monday morning, wishing that your nightmare would come back and plague you, just so that you can see your beloved one last time.”",
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                        "text": "Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.",
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                        "text": "There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.",
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                        "text": "Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night... Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams, purge your thoughts of the life you knew before. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and live, as you never lived before!",
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                        "text": "“She would fain claim him fully, without giving up herself fully to him; but it can never be: while she retains her own name, she can never claim his. She may not promise to love and honour if she will not also promise to obey: and till her love reaches that point of surrender she must remain an unsatisfied lover—she cannot, as a satisfied bride, find rest in the home of her husband. While she retains her own will, and the control of her own possessions, she must be content to live on her own resources; she cannot claim his.”",
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