"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning."
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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
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"What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship."
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"And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch"
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"It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky."
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"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
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"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."
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"Effective magic is transcendent nature."
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"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
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"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
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"Blameless people are always the most exasperating."
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"Kisses honeyed by oblivion."
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"There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder."
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"But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love."
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"You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es"
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"There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
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"The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach."
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"The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality."
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"Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills! Dark the night Yet is she bright, For in her dark she brings the mystic star, Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love, From some unknown afar."
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"There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration."
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