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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

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Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

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Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

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I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

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If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

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Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

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Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

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Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

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Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

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Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

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Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

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My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

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... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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