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North and South (1854)
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Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.
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Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy, by his power of loving, to win back her love.
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I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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Born:
September 29, 1810
Died:
November 12, 1865
(aged 55)
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