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" A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. "

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" It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. "

" If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. "

" We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. "

" Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. "

" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "

" The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. "

" No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. "

" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "

" We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. "

" It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. "

" There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. "

" Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. "

" Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. "

" Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. "

" Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. "

" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "

" The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. "

" I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. "

" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "

" Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. "

" The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. "

" But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. "

" Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. "

" Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. "

" The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. "

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" Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. "

" The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. "

" Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. "