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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

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Change begets change.

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You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

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That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

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You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

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Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

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Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

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I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

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Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

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Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

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Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

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Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.

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And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

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