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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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