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A maiden or maid is a female virgin or, more broadly, merely an unmarried young woman or girl. Related terms include damsel and wench.

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β€œIf you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid.”
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β€œPrudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
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β€œMaid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!”
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β€œThe spotless maid is like the blooming rose
Which on its native stem unsullied grows.”
β€œMaids are like contentment in this life,
Which all the world have sought, but none enjoy’d.”
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β€œIf Love the Virgin's Heart invade,
How, like a Moth, the simple Maid
Still plays about the Flame!”
β€œYonder a maid and her wight
Come whispering by:
War's annals will cloud into night
Ere their story die.”
β€œHe that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter,
But he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her.”
β€œThe rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.”
β€œA maiden is like a half-blown damask rose, fair as a dream and full of the sweet fragrance of the purity of dawning womanhood.”
β€œMen are April when they woo, December when they wed.
Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
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β€œShe dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.”
β€œA damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.”
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β€œThe heart of a man to the heart of a maid β€”
Light of my tents, be fleet β€”
Morning awaits at the end of the world,
And the world is all at our feet.”
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β€œMaidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.”
β€œHow beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!”
β€œBe good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long;
And so make Life, and Death, and that For-Ever,
One grand sweet song”
β€œShould ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind;
Ah! surely it must be whenever I find;
Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic;
That often must have seen a poet frantic.”
β€œSome times with secure delight
The up-land Hamlets will invite,
When the merry Bells ring round,
And the jocund rebecks sound
To many a youth, and many a maid,
Dancing in the Chequer'd shade.”
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β€œThere 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.”
β€œAnd lang, lang may the maidens sit
  Wi’ their gowd kames in their hair,
A-waiting for their ain dear loves!
  For them they’ll see nae mair.”
β€œThe 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.”
β€œThough friendships differ endless in degree,
The sorts, methinks, may be reduced to three.
Acquaintance many, and Conquaintance few,
But for Inquaintance I know only two β€”
The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.”
β€œO I forbid you, maidens a’,
  That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
  For young Tam Lin is there.For even about that knight’s middle
  O’ siller bells are nine;
And nae maid comes to Carterhaugh
  And a maid returns again.”
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β€œ"Where are you going, my pretty maid?"
"I am going a-milking sir," she said.
"May I go with you, my pretty maid?"
"You are kindly welcome sir," she said.
"What is your father, my pretty maid?"
"My father's a farmer, sir," she said.
"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?"
"My face is my fortune, sir," she said.
"Then I can't marry you, my pretty maid?"
"Nobody asked you sir," she said.”
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Maiden on Tommy Douglas 2 quotes

β€œThe speech from the throne speaks about maintaining peace - peace today, when Canadian nickel is being indirectly shipped to Ethiopia. Peace today, when Italian aeroplanes are being flown with British oil! Peace! Mr. Speaker, if this be peace it must be like the peace of the Lord - it passeth all understanding.”
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Maiden on Harold Macmillan

β€œIt breaks my heart to see (I can't interfere or do anything at my age) what is happening in our country today – this terrible strike of the best men in the world, who beat the Kaiser's army and beat Hitler's army, and never gave in. Pointless, endless. We can't afford that kind of thing. And then this growing division which the noble Lord who has just spoken mentioned, of a comparatively prosperous south, and an ailing north and midlands. That can't go on.”
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Maiden on Henry Grattan

β€œThe Parliament of Irelandβ€”of that assembly I have a parental recollection. I sate by her cradle, I followed her hearse. In fourteen years she acquired for Ireland what you did not acquire for England in a centuryβ€”freedom of trade, independency of the legislature, independency of the judges, restoration of the final judicature, repeal of a perpetual mutiny bill, habeas corpus act, nullum tempus actβ€”a great work! You will exceed it, and I shall rejoice. I call my countrymen to witness, if in that business I compromised the claims of my country, or temporised with the power of England; but there was one thing which baffled the effort of the patriot, and defeated the wisdom of the senate, it was the folly of the theologian.”
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Maiden on Sam Rayburn

β€œIt has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens would call me to membership in this popular branch of the greatest lawmaking body in the world. Out of their confidence and partiality they have done this. It is now my sole purpose here to help enact such wise and just laws that our common country will by virtue of these laws be a happier and a more prosperous country. I have always dreamed of a country which I believe this should be and will be, and that is one in which the citizenship is an educated and patriotic people, not swayed by passion and prejudice, and a country that shall know no East, no West, no North, no South, but inhabited by a people liberty loving, patriotic, happy, and prosperous, with its lawmakers having no other purpose than to write such just laws as shall in the years to come be of service to human kind yet unborn.”
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Maiden on Suella Braverman

β€œOn a cold February morning in 1968, a young man, not yet 21, stepped off a plane at Heathrow airport, nervously folding away his one-way ticket from Kenya. He had no family, no friends and was clutching only his most valuable possession, his British passport. His homeland was in political turmoil. Kenya had kicked him out for being British. My father never returned. He made his life here in Britain, starting on the shop floor of a paint factory. My mother, recruited by the NHS in Mauritius as a girl of 18, passed her 45th year of service last year. My family had nothing but hopes and dedication. They were so proud to be British and so proud to make our country even better. If I succeed in making some small contribution during my time in this place, it will reflect only a fraction of my gratitude to this country for the abundance of education, culture and traditions that have made Britain great, for the tolerance and fellowship of the British people, and for the opportunity and liberty that we all enjoy.”
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About Maiden

A maiden or maid is a female virgin or, more broadly, merely an unmarried young woman or girl. Related terms include damsel and wench.