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Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.
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Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
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Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?
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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
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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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Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
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We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan but those three words, God is love ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.
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Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
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No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
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The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever.
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It is not work that kills, but worry.
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As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?
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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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Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.
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What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.
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