"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it."
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"There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room."
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"Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother."
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"It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be."
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
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"Consequences are unpitying."
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
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"In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories."
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"There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten."
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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
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"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."
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"The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite."
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"Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs."
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"I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money."
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"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course."
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"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."
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"To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath."
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"Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you."
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"How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music."
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"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
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