"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."
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"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
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"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."
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"No man can be wise on an empty stomach."
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"Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending."
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"It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks."
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"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave."
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"We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."
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"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade."
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"It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon."
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"You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl."
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"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
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"Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence."
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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
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"One can say everything best over a meal."
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
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"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
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"Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning."
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