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Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Fortune Happiness
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Age Fame Life Oneself Worth
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Guide Life Perfection Reason
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
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Forever Guide Heart Honesty Humble Sound Spirit Time
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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Ability Attitude Equality Important Success
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
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Blessing Freedom Himself Man Myself Talk Teaching
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
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Heart Myself Tears
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Breathe Deep Repair
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
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Philosophy Poet Religious Unity
Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges
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Care Ourselves Privelege
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Energy Ourselves Purpose Strength Wonderful
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Dog God Happiness Investment Nature
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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Deal Goodness Love
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.
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Animal Mystery
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Greatness Path Peace Virtue World
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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Danger Reality
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Dream Equality Light Night
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
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Mindset People Reality Strange
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Life Rise Wake Up
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
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Greatness Mad Talent
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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Character Excellence Existence Strange
Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Art Children Garden Nature
Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!
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Age Believe Existence Stupidity
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Attitude Impossible
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Cold Eyes Feeling Heart Myself
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Freedom Privilege Story
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Food Hell Revenge

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

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