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• As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy,…
• Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
• What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of…
• We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
• All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just…
• Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
• If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
• Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
• ... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower…
• The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
• Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
• A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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