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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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Expectation Gift Happiness
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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Philosophy Silence
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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Avoid Hope Vice Yourself
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
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Change Heart Win Worth
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
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Fall In Love Herself Strong Tears Wound Yourself
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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Life Safety Simplicity Strong
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
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Death Life Oppression
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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Explanation Ideas
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
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Impossible Inspirational
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
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Mindset Ourselves
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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Love Man Relationship Woman
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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Goodness Talk Word
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent’s love.
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Children Family Live Love World
The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
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Bright Desire Karma Spiritual
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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Nature Season Spring Summer Time
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.
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Deep Enemy People
It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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Break Deep Result Worth
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
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Herself Music Ocean
Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
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Courage Failure Generosity Try
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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Carry Hell Love Mad Misery Myself Vision
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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Character Heart Self Love Touch
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
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Lie One Liner Philosophy
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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Deep Family Relationship
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
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Deep Heart Human
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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Life Light Music Poetry
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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Happiness Hope Love Myself Peace Promise Reason Relationship
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
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Broken Heart Death Deep Live Philosophy

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

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