• Various

  No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

  3.6 · 28 votes · 120 reads

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• Defects

  One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

  3.5 · 31 votes · 85 reads

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• Various

  These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

  3.5 · 23 votes · 96 reads

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• Various

  To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  3.3 · 41 votes · 133 reads

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• Virtues

  When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  3.9 · 43 votes · 12 reads

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• Various

  Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  3.4 · 62 votes · 133 reads

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