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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
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We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
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