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/ page 423 of 1205 /A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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