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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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