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Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

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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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The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

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The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it.

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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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The rose I gave you was an emblem of myheart,' said she; 'would you take it away andleave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked...more

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I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed an...more

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