But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . .George Eliot
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind
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Those who trust us educate us.
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
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What a wretched lot of old shriveled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads.... It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle....
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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