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"The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows."
"Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves."
"To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline."
"A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was."
"The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace."
"The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return."
"There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
"Men and women are but children of a larger growth."
"Human experience is usually paradoxical."
"... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection."
"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right."
"Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery."
"What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery."
"It is never too late to be who you want to be."
"Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing."
"It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web."
"Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity."
"I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines."
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."
"The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."