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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

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Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

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Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

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Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

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I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.

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Silence is more musical than any song.

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And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

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I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

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My heart is like a singing bird.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.

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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick

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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

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