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- Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often…
- To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
- The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
- Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
- Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
- Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought…
- I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be…
- A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the…
- Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
- The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man…
- All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another…
- ...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do…
- There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
- The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
- Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can…
- Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
- It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
- We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
- There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my…
- I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
- Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften…
- It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that…
- It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why…
- With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose…
- Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly,…
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