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- It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
- A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is…
- There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems…
- We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.…
- College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
- It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born…
- The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a…
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from…
- What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
- Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I…
- Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
- Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
- Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -…
- The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
- Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
- Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
- In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
- 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…
- Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,…
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must…
- Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire…
- No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I…
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