To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
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Awhile - and see how love be grownIn loveliness and power!
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Love, and the love of life and act
Dance, live and sing through all our furrowed tract;
Till the great God enamoured gives
To him who reads, to him who lives,
That rare and fair romantic strain
That whoso hears must hear again.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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