A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
All romances end at marriage.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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