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We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.