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Honourable and generous love may even now work out your happiness, and effect your escape; a frantic and selfish passion will but lead you to misery and doom." "Do you pretend, then, to read the future ?" "I have said all that it pleases me to utter." "While you assume the moralist to me, Signor Zanoni," said Glyndon, with a smile, "are you yourself so indifferent to youth and beauty as to act the stoic to its allurements ?" "If it were necessary that practice square with precept," said Zanoni, with a bitter smile, "our monitors would be but few.

The conduct of the individual can affect but a small circle beyond himself; the permanent good or evil that he works to others lies rather in the sentiments he can diffuse.

His acts are limited and momentary; his sentiments may pervade the universe, and inspire generations till the day of doom.

All our virtues, all our laws, are drawn from books and maxims, which ARE sentiments, not from deeds.