She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it composed entirely of Miss Schlegels. But the world being what it is, perhaps they shine out in it like stars.
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