"The beauty of a lovely woman is like music."
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"One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures."
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"To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion."
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"As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves."
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"It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism."
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"Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right."
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"We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger."
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"Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty."
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"The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten."
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"Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
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"A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger."
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"Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will."
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"There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate."
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"Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter."
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"Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence."
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"The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie."
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"Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life."
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"A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts."
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