"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it."
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"One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good."
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"Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."
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"It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable."
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"The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer."
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"It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound."
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"Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud."
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"Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi."
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"For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . ."
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"He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . ."
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"Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so ."
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"Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."
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"No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted."
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"'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'."
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"Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . ."
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"Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment."
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"Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience."
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"Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!"
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"It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em."
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"Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science."
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