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Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
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All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
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No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fear;But, grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
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Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.
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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
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An ashen memory in its stead.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'
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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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