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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
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One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it.
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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It's never too late to be who you might have been.
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Wear a smile and have friends,
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
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We ust find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.
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Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
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It is never too late to become what we might have been.
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When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
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Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.
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Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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