"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
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"Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness."
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"In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure"
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"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."
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"Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves."
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"Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety."
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"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
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"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest."
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"So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood."
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"If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings."
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"When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent."
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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
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"You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable."
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"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
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"Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years."
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"Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them."
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"[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it."
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