Maiden

Sobre Maiden

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“There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.”
— Book of Proverbs, 30, 18–19 (KJV)
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
— William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
“The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Letter IV (16 July 1903)
“If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid.”
— Anonymous proverb, collected in A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages (1899) by John Ray, further edited by Henry George Bohn, p. 420
“A maiden is like a half-blown damask rose, fair as a dream and full of the sweet fragrance of the purity of dawning womanhood.”
— Annie E. Lancaster

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