“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
Truth“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
Death“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
Truth“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
Experience“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
Love“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
Home“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
Best“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
Best“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
Travel“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
Best“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
Experience“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
Great“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
Best“Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”
Smile“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Great“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
Family“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Hope“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
Nature“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
Gardening“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.”
Freedom“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
Best“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”
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