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" It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. "

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" 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. "

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" When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. "

" That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. "

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" Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. "

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" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "

" 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. "

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" Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. "

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" The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. "

" Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. "

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" It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. "

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" 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. "

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