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| Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. | | Uncategorized | |
| Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. | | Uncategorized | |
| She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. | | Grief | |
| She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment. | | Uncategorized | |
| Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. | | Uncategorized | |
| Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us | | Uncategorized | |
| Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. | | Uncategorized | |
| That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled. | | Uncategorized | |
| That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow. | | Uncategorized | |
| That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. | | Uncategorized | |
| That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. | | Uncategorized | |
| The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. | | Uncategorized | |
| The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. | | Uncategorized | |
| The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world | | Uncategorized | |
| The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection | | Uncategorized | |
| The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. | | Uncategorized | |
| The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Life | |
| The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. | | Uncategorized | |
