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...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
A good solid bit of work lasts.
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
Only God knows how much I love you.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
Girls are not just put on earth for men's amusement while they do the important things.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
