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One only right we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.
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A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
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We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.
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With faces like dead lovers who died true.
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O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.
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Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
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Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of eccentricity it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.
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When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.
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It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.
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