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My tears are buried in my heart,Like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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We step not over the threshold of childhood till led by Love
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The weakness of our nature--how soon any strong emotion masters it !
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I had lost of humanity but its illusions, and they alone are what render it supportable.
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For when do friends not delight in the sorrow of the prosperous?
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How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns !
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What a mistake rage is ! anger should never go beyond a sneer, if it really desires revenge.
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Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy
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We again repeat, that there is no temper so communicative as an imaginative one.
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who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
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to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others; ...
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A despotic power makes slaves.
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vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
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true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
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when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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The gallantry of an English peasant rarely expands into words.
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what an odd thing it is, that the indications of terror are usually ludicrous !
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Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.
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The fearless make their own way.
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Sound peculiarly appeals to memory.
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but conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ; and habit is our idea of eternity.
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Who does not know the restlessness of an anticipated arrival ?
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Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.
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English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
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We talk of unsophisticated nature--I should like to know where it is to be found.
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Ill-timed admiration is enough to enrage a saint.
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the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.
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The future! ah, there hath the spirit its home,In its distance is written the glorious to come.
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Oh! world of sweet phantoms, how precious thou art!The past is perpetual youth to the heart.
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Ah! love and song are but a dream,A flower's faint shade on life's dark stream.
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Ah, minstrel song hath many wings!From foreign lands its wealth it brings.
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The field is fought--who walketh there?--The shadow victory casts--Despair!
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Night came--the deep and purple timeOf summer in a southern clime.
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Oh, weary day that seemed so long!Oh, hours that dragged their weight along!
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Oh, nothing has the memory of love!
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It is so sad -- In whom there is a sign of change!
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This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
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Selfishness is hypocritical by nature, and seizes on the first decent excuse as a cloak ;
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Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing.
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I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.
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Now, bitter, but useful, mortification is the steppingstone to knowledge, even in a child.
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Expectation makes a long delay.
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we all know mysteries are very fascinating things.
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