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- It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
- Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth…
- Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
- Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.
- There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even…
- In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent…
- Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds…
- Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land…
- Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and…
- The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain…
- Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never…
- And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only…
- Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet…
- It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,…
- Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
- Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the…
- There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
- Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such…
- But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
- As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably…
- What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to…
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