"I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death."
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"I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach."
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"Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry."
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"... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession."
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"The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good."
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"There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done."
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"There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born."
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"All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy."
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"There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart."
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"All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!"
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"My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them."
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"trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it."
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"I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind."
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"The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers."
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"A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it."
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"The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant."
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"Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments."
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"even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises."
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"In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also."
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"Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love."
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