It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEWhen the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
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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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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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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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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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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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Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties…and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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