Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
CHARLES DICKENSIt is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
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Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.
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Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
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Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.
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The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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We need never be ashamed of our tears.
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One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
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