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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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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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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 storms.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
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It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
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Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
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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 only know them when they are gone.
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