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Mrs. Gibson, it is true, was ready to go over the ground as many times as any one liked; but her words were always like ready-made clothes, and never fitted individual thoughts.
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This household had many failings: they were but human, and, with all their loving desire to bring their lives into harmony with the will of God, they often erred and fell short; but, somehow, the very errors and faults of one individual served to call out higher excellences in another, and so they reacted upon each other, and the result of short discords was exceeding harmony and peace.
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married a woman whose only want of practical wisdom consisted in taking him for a husband.
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Of all trite, worn-out, hollow mockeries of comfort that were ever uttered by people who will not take the trouble of sympathising with others, the one I dislike the most is the exhortation not to grieve over an event, "for it cannot be helped." Do you think if I could help it, I would sit still with folded hands, content to mourn? Do you not believe that as long as hope remained I would be up and doing? I mourn because what has occurred ca..
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Where she had suffered so much.' Alas! And that was the way in which the eighteen months in Milton - to him so unspeakably precious, down to its very bitterness, which was worth all the rest of life's sweetness - would be remembered. Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr. Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as..
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He dreaded lest he should go forwards to meet her, with his arms held out in mute entreaty that she would come and nestle there, as she had done, all unheeded, the day before, but never unheeded again...She might droop, and flush, and flutter to his arms, as to her natural home and resting-place.
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We are the trees whom shaking fastens more. --George Herbert
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THE DARK NIGHT 'On earth is known to none The smile that is not sister to a tear.' ELLIOTT.
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MISTAKES CLEARED UP 'Your beauty was the first that won the place, And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart, Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case, Unkindly met with rigour for desert;-- Yet not the less your servant shall abide, In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.' WILLIAM FOWLER.
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Well--I suppose we must.' FRIENDS IN COUNCIL.
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All beautiful scriptures came into her mind. 'They rest from their labours.' 'The weary are at rest.' 'He giveth His beloved sleep.
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My father once made us," she began, "keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course and events of the coming day, and at night we were to put down on the other side what really had happened. It would be to some people rather a sad way of telling their lives," (a tear dropped upon my hand at these words)--"I don't mean that mine has been sad, only so very different to what I ..
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Trust in that veiled hand, which leads None by the path that he would go; And always be for change prepared, For the world's law is ebb and flow.' FROM THE ARABIC.
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Let China's earth, enrich'd with colour'd stains, Pencil'd with gold, and streak'd with azure veins, The grateful flavour of the Indian leaf, Or Mocho's sunburnt berry glad receive.' MRS. BARBAULD.
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the ladies were so dull - oh so dull ! It reminded me of our old game of each having so many nouns to introduce into a sentence...They took nouns that were signs of the things which gave evidence of wealth, - house-keepers, under-gardeners, extent of glass, valuable lace, diamonds and all such things; and each one formed her speech so as to bring them all in, in the prettiest accidental manner possible.
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Where are the sounds that swam along The buoyant air when I was young? The last vibration now is o'er, And they who listened are no more; Ah! let me close my eyes and dream. --W. S. Landor
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for if she had two characteristics in her natural state of health, they were a facility of eating and sleeping. If she could neither eat nor sleep, she must be indeed out of spirits and out of Health.
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We found out that we mutually disliked each other, and were contented with the discovery. If people are worth anything, this sort of non-liking is a very good beginning of friendship. Every good quality is revealed naturally and slowly, and is a pleasant surprise.
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If we do not reverence the past as you do in Oxford, it is because we want something which can apply to the present more directly. It is fine when the study of the past leads to a prophecy of the future. But to men groping in new circumstances, it would be finer if the words of experience could direct us how to act in what concerns us most intimately and immediately; which is full of difficulties that must be encountered; and upon the mode ..
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MEN AND GENTLEMEN 'Old and young, boy, let 'em all eat, I have it; Let 'em have ten tire of teeth a-piece, I care not.' ROLLO, DUKE OF NORMANDY.
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Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil,"--"
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Still, as it is the exceptional and exaggerated characteristics of any period that leave the most vivid memory behind them, it would be wrong, and in my opinion faithless, to conclude that such and such forms of society and modes of living were not best for the period when they prevailed, although the abuses they may have led into, and the gradual progress of the world, have made it well that such ways and manners should pass away for ever,..
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I tell you it's the poor, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds;
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For never any thing can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it.' MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
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song of the miller who lived by the river Dee:-- 'I care for nobody--Nobody cares for me.
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How little can the rich man know Of what the poor man feels, When Want, like some dark demon foe, Nearer and nearer steals! "HE never tramp'd the weary round, A stroke of work to gain, And sicken'd at the dreaded sound Which tells he seeks in vain. "Foot-sore, heart-sore, HE never came Back through the winter's wind, To a dank cellar, there no flame, No light, no food, to find. "HE never saw his darlings lie Shivering, the flag..
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A man,' as one of them observed to me once, 'is so in the way in the house!
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Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
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That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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I'll not listen to reason...Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
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