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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need; by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath. Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

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And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.

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He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

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No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

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What is art, But life upon the larger scale, the higher,...

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Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.

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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

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Books succeed, and lives fail.

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

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Eve is a twofold mystery.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

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Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

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The devil's most devilish when respectable.

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I think it frets the saints in heaven to see How many desolate creatures on the earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship And social comfort, in a hospital.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

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