It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.George Eliot
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
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Mighty is the force of motherhood It transforms all things by its vital heat.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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How will you find good It is not a thing of choice it is a river that flows from the foot of the invisible throne, and flows by the path of obedience
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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