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

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

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

" Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. "

" He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. "

" People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. "

" 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. "

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

" There are many victories worse than a defeat. "

" But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. "

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

" What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. "

" 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. "

" Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? "

" 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. "

" In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. "

" I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. "

" Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? "

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

" There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. "

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

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

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

" Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. "

" Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. "

" To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. "

" I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. "