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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEA husband is very much like a house or a horse.
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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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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
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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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The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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