One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
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At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
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I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest, a continued one thro' the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table. I am still devoted to the garden. But tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener.
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
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Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
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My own opinion is that [love] is felt most completely in marriage, or some comparable attachment of long duration. Love takes time. What are c...
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
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There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
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Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
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