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I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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Accomplishment Myself Reality
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
Friendship? Yes Please.
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Friendship
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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Communication Soul
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
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Man Philosophy Time Wait
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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Life Safety Simplicity Strong
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
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Feeling Marriage Mindset Money Myself
When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.
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Forget Gratitude Spring Yourself
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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Deep End Life Philosophy Togetherness
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
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Oneself Self Love Wasted Time
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
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Motivational One Liner Time
One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
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Oneself Rain Shame Tears
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
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
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
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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Bad People Result
There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
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Book Comfortable Material Satisfaction
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
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Beginning Home Justice
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
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
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
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Goodness Possible
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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Care Comfortable Love Relationship Talk
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Light World
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
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Heart Lips Yourself
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
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
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.
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Emotion Hide Philosophy

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

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