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- The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
- I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge:…
- It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance…
- There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing…
- The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we…
- 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…
- It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
- I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
- There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived…
- 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…
- You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
- 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…
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
- Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
- A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories
- Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,…
- It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
- Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we…
- I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose…
- I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we…
- Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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