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Husbandhood, fatherhood, and all the sacred education that flows from human joy; for ever self-forbidden, and this grind creed for recompense!

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Husbandhood, fatherhood, and all the sacred education that flows from human joy for ever self-forbidden, and this grim creed for recompense!

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

And so he drifts, not up but down, and Nature watches in anguish, self-forbidden to intervene, unless it be to annihilate.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

But he was not yet cured of longing for that self-forbidden city in the North.

From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)