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When a child is born the mother also is born again.

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Gilbert Parker
Age: 70 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 30
Died: 1932
Died: September 6
Politician
Writer
Waterford City
Gilbert Parker
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker
1st Baronet
Horatio Gilbert Parker
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.
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It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
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Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture it comforteth when there are no medicines it hath the relish of manna and by it do men live in the desert.
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She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.
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That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.
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Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.
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The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
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There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
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Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
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Every shot that kills ricochets.
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He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
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