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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day ...more

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We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

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Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usua...more

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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!