"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
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"Nothing at times is more expressive than silence."
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"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
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"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."
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"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
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"A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories"
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"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
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"A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them."
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"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
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"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us."
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""Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another."
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"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing."
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"Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing."
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"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
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"Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp."
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"I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like."
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"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
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"Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide."
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