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" Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. "

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" And yet to every bad there is a worse. "

" Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. "

" The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. "

" There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. "

" If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. "

" The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. "

" Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. "

" A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. "

" The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. "

" Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. "

" My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. "

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

" That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. "

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" If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. "

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" The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. "

" The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. "

" It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. "

" Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. "