The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.Lydia M. Child
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
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That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly.
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