• Nature

  And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

  3.0 · 10 votes · 90 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  3.2 · 42 votes · 76 reads

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• Nature

  Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

  4.5 · 38 votes · 158 reads

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• Feelings

  Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

  4.7 · 53 votes · 175 reads

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• Various

  Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  4.9 · 64 votes · 186 reads

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• Various

  Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

  3.6 · 20 votes · 190 reads

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• Society

  Breed is stronger than pasture.

  4.3 · 49 votes · 62 reads

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• Virtues

  But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

  4.3 · 19 votes · 84 reads

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• Feelings

  But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  3.9 · 63 votes · 181 reads

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• Society

  But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

  3.9 · 39 votes · 143 reads

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• Feelings

  But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  3.5 · 62 votes · 196 reads

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• Society

  Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to

  4.5 · 60 votes · 80 reads

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• Nature

  Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

  5.0 · 50 votes · 168 reads

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• Various

  Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

  3.4 · 23 votes · 170 reads

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• Various

  Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

  4.5 · 11 votes · 30 reads

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• Feelings

  Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

  5.0 · 53 votes · 137 reads

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• Time

  Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

  4.0 · 22 votes · 103 reads

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• Feelings

  For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

  3.2 · 50 votes · 24 reads

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• Feelings

  Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

  4.4 · 62 votes · 39 reads

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• Virtues

  Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

  4.9 · 55 votes · 39 reads

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• Various

  Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

  3.7 · 22 votes · 60 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

  4.8 · 14 votes · 42 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a r

  3.3 · 39 votes · 124 reads

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• Nature

  Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  3.4 · 31 votes · 191 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

  4.9 · 46 votes · 100 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called t

  4.3 · 48 votes · 8 reads

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• Time

  I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

  4.7 · 56 votes · 8 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

  4.7 · 30 votes · 85 reads

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• Feelings

  I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that yo

  3.8 · 54 votes · 86 reads

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• Nature

  I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

  5.0 · 16 votes · 171 reads

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• Nature

  I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

  4.8 · 60 votes · 25 reads

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• Virtues

  I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

  4.5 · 12 votes · 42 reads

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• Defects

  I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

  4.2 · 43 votes · 184 reads

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• Time

  Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

  3.2 · 58 votes · 111 reads

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• Time

  In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  3.3 · 38 votes · 86 reads

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• Art and Culture

  In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

  4.1 · 61 votes · 171 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

  4.3 · 64 votes · 89 reads

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• Virtues

  Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

  3.8 · 11 votes · 193 reads

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• Virtues

  It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.

  3.9 · 21 votes · 95 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  It is never too late to be what you might have been.

  4.9 · 20 votes · 15 reads

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