The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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