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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or...
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...
Look twice before you leap.
Source: Shirley, ch. 9, 1849.
-- Charlotte Bronte,...
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a...
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did...
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Source: The Professor, 1846.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it...
Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Source: Shirley, 1849.
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the...
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Source: The Professor, 1846.
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
Source: Shirley, 1849.
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar...
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state...