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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have su...more

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There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.

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What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each ot...more

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I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

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I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.

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Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a mo...more

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It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.

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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

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

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I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your ...more

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Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat...more

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O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In de...more

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It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.''No,' sa...more