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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

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I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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