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| A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past |
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| A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. |
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| A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul |
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| A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world |
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| A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon |
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| A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats |
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| Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. |
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| All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. |
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| Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. |
| Affection; Love |
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| Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. |
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| Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream |
| Dreams; Evil; Revolution; Soul |
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| Easy reading is damned hard writing. |
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| Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. |
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| Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. |
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| Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds. |
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| Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. |
| Happiness; World |
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