"Steady work turns genius to a loom."
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"Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
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"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge."
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"When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing."
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"Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love."
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"I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone."
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"One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man."
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"I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand."
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"If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst."
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"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."
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"That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing."
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"It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in."
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"We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born."
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"It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations."
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"All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet."
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"We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement."
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"Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down."
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"It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."
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"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
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"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
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