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- Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the…
- The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
- Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
- It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers…
- 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…
- Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
- No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
- We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
- Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
- Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
- No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- 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…
- Those who trust us educate us.
- We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
- What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
- We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,…
- If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
- Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his…
- We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves
- For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
- Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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