"A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones."
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"I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief."
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"I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for."
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"I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly."
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"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive."
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"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
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"We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire."
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"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."
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"If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come."
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"So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain."
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"A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man."
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"As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men."
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"College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em."
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"Hear Everything and judge for yourself"
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"What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?"
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"Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?"
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"To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy."
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"Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us."
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"There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
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"It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart."
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