"There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart."
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"If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed."
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"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."
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"Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!"
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"Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them."
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"That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure."
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"To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."
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"In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect."
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"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it."
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"Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience."
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"I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities."
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"One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow."
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"A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance."
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
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"I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman."
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"I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery."
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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
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"Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star."
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"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
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"Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever."
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