ThursdayNov 21, 2024
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Spoken to her husband of nine months, Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Look twice before you leap.
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter in the eye.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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