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• Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

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  Confused, Voice, Insanity

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• I love victory, but I love not triumph.

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  Victory, Triumph

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• Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

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  Night, Age, Magnificence

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• If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Ifs

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• To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

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  Love, Romantic, Memorable

  "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, (p. 167), 2004.

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• We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

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  Future, Past, Looking To The Future

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• Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

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  Men, Years, Age

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• Feeling loves a subdued light.

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  Light, Feelings, Sensibility

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• Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

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  Encounters, Faults, Insufferable

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• By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

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  Unhappy, Becoming, Sometimes

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• What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

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  Grief, Self, Resignation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 511), 1895.

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• Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

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  Mean, Errors, Race

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• Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

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  Age, Harmony, Creation

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• There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

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  Deserve, Falsehood

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• Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

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  Love, Heart, Reflection

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• The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

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  Happiness, Art, Sick

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• Repentance is accepted remorse.

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  Accepted, Repentance, Remorse

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• Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

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  Strength, Weakness, Conflict

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• In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

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  Healthy, States, Tendencies

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• Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

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  Miracle, Coups

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• Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

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  Gratitude, Suffering, Language

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• In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

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  Retirement, Flow, Obstacles

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• We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

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  Inspirational, Hype, Support

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• Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

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  Steps, Aging, Life Is

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