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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

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Never confuse activity with action.

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I was too absorbed to be responsive

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A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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She knew few words and believed in none.

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From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

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Human sympathy has its limits.

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we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

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I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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