Passion takes no count of time peril marks no hours or minutes wrong makes its own calendar and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself.
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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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To Arthur love is a state, not a process an atmosphere, not a study an assurance, not a hope a fact, not an ideal.
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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
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