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• But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's…
• Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure…
• Silence sweeter is than speech.
• It is not work that kills, but "worry."
• Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
• A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
• The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
• Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands…
• To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
• It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
• An author departs; he does not die.
• Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

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