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/ page 168 of 1205 /How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness / calling their denial knowledge.
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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
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In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.
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He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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