“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
Experience“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Marriage“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
Experience“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
Good“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Jealousy“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Anger“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”
Pet“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
Knowledge“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”
Fear“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
Family“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
Men“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
Death“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
Peace“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
History“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”
Experience“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Hope“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
Best“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
Best“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
Great“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 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“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.”
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