"A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH."
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"But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
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"It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again."
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"What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose."
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"It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money."
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"How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?"
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"There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet."
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"Joy is the best of wine."
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"We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands."
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"Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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"Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him."
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"But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?"
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"Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing."
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"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . ."
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"There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it."
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"Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness."
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"The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered."
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"Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day."
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"A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills."
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"Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike."
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