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I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been.
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
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Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.
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I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.
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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
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The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her — "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness..."
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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The beings closest to us, whether in love or hate, are often virtually our interpreters of the world, and some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them — like a piece of yellow and wavy glass that distorts form and makes colour an affliction. Their trivial sentences, their petty standards, their low suspicions, their loveless ennui, may be making somebody else's life no better than a promenade through a pantheon of ugly idols.
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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 escapes by transformation.
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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
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The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
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Born:
November 22, 1819
Died:
December 22, 1880
(aged 61)
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