More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.
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Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . .
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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