Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine an irregular course of life demoralizes them.
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Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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Shame, Depair, Soltude These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,- and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
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Yesterday I visited the British Museum an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.
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