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- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- Eggs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
- Affection
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- Nov 07, 2020
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
- Nov 07, 2020
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- Nov 07, 2020
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
- Decrepit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- Nov 07, 2020
Consequences are unpitying.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
- Offense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- Pasture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Breed is stronger than pasture.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
- Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
- Nov 07, 2020
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- Private
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
- Offence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
- Cloudy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
- Practical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
- Indifference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020