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/ page 165 of 1205 /Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. Anger
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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
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But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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It's never too late to be who you might have been.
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How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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