Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.
Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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