The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor makeshift way it had better have been left to the men.George Eliot
An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
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It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found in loving obedience.
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
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