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| But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master / something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame. |
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| Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. |
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| Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. |
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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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| Ever after that I knew what I was for him; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased painfully to care. |
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| Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition |
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| Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter. |
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| Good-night, Dr. John; you are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine. Good-night, and God bless you! |
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| I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. |
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| I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . . |
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| I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. |
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| I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. |
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| If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. |
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