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Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
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It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
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We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.
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When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
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Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!
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