"After all, the true seeing is within."
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"Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?"
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"It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner."
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"We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open."
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"I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts."
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"Those who trust us educate us."
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"Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it."
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"Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do."
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"These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience."
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"The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul."
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"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self."
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"Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
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"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
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"I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over."
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"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
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"The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity."
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"Correct English is the slang of prigs."
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"If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."
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"But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?"
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"It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance."
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