Fanny Kemble Short Quotes

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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

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The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

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Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them.

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It's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

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I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

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Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

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They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

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The end is come in thunder and wild rain
Autumn has stormed the golden house of summer.

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Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfill
Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

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When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

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This country is so vast that one half might eat the other half and the third half be none the worse.

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Children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

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The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

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Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

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Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart that, if believed,
Had blessed one's life with true believing.

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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

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What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

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Cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

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An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

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Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

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