"I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it."
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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."
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"What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?"
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"When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord."
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"Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
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"The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination."
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"Our thoughts are often worse than we are."
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"Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness."
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"The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day."
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"Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature."
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"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."
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"Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common."
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"I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson."
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"Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off."
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"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up."
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"Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow."
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"bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin."
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"The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious."
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"The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change."
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"Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves."
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