The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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