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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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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 that knit us to the old.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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Excessive literary production is a social offense.

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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