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

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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely...more

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He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

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Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! B...more

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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

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I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?" Responding...more

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The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, ...more

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if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

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What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the...more

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the sight of me is good for sore eyes

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its intere...more

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I ...more

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The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.

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That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and thin...more