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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

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Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

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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 subject at a time.

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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

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We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

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Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

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I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

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things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

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A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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Circumstances beyond my individual control.

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

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Change begets change.

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When she took her opposite place in the carriage corner, the brightness in her face was so charming to behold, that on her exclaiming, "What beautiful stars and what a glorious night!" the Secretary said "Yes," but seemed to prefer to see the night and the stars in the light of her lovely little countenance, to looking out of window.

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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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