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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Consequences are unpitying.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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