"Not yet hardened, many young die good."
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"To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts."
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"New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in."
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"All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent."
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"If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances."
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"To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame."
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"It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now."
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"A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House."
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"This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously."
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"It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action."
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"Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]"
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"Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand."
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"She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy."
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"I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart."
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"London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London."
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"Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need."
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"She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief."
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"Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday."
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