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 | "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving
us wordy evidence of the fact." | |
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Found in the topic Discretion.
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| "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects
than love." | |
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Found in the topic Anger.
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| "I?m not denyin? the women are foolish: God Almighty made ?em to
match the men." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can
understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the
absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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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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Found in the topic Bachelors.
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| "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that
does not find relief in music." | |
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Found in the topic Music.
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| "When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our
tenderness that we repent of, but our severity." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot
find it." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Pain is no evil unless it conquers us." | |
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Found in the topic Pain.
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| "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 highest happiness
such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and
much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous." | |
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Found in the topic Prophecy.
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| "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be
true to the best one knows." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "It is possible to have a strong self-love without any
self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense
because one"s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme
care." | |
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Found in the topic Discontent.
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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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Found in the topic Love.
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| "A woman"s hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates
them." | |
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Found in the topic Hope.
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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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Found in the topic Success.
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| "Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may
lawfully claim." | |
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Found in the topic Abstinence.
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| "With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man"s past is not
simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is a
still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and
the tinglings of a merited shame." | |
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Found in the topic Past.
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| "It"s them as take advantage that get advantage i" this world." | |
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Found in the topic Competence.
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| "We hand folks over to God?s mercy, and show none ourselves." | |
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Found in the topic Mercy.
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