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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

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To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and ...more

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Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts, a...more

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God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life...more

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart’s blo...more

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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life...more

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Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the re...more

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I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

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No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind ...more

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Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite w...more

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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to ...more

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.