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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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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
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
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Beginning End Joy Pain
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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Enough Myself World
True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.
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Believe Deep Love True Trust
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
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Gift Greatness Love
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.
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Deep Enemy People
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
It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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Break Deep Result Worth
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
We forge the chains we wear in life.
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Life One Liner
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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Humour Laughter World
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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Life Light Music Poetry
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Light World
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
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Opinion People Right True Wrong
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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Evil Hope Love Reality World

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