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“Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.”
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“Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.”
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“Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!”
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“Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.”
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“The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.”
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“There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.”
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“I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.”
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“A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.”
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“One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.”
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“I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've liv'd amid the forest gloom Until I almost fear-- When will the thrilling voices come My spirit thirsts to hear?”
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“The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.”
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“The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.”
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“We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.”
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“The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.”
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“Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.”
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“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”
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“Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.”
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“Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!”
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“The taste forever refines in the study of women.”
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“There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.”
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“Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.”
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“The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.”
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“The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.”
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“It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.”
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“Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.”
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“The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.”
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“Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.”
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“T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.”
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“A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.”
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“O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!”
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