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The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little les...more

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I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark parti...more

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Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how f...more

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. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

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My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.