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Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.