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- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
- Nov 07, 2020
They who drink beer will think beer.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
- Dormant
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Dormant
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
- Healthful
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
- Clouds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Herding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
- Great Minds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
- Good Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
- Deficient
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
- Bruised
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020