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• If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Ifs

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• All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

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  Grief, Joy, Veils

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• Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

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  Men, Divine, Misfortunes

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• When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

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  Party, Political, Doe

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• Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

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  Vanity, Enemy, Dignity

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• Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

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  Grief, Humility, Pride

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• True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

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  Artist, Poetry, Childhood

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• To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

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  Love, Romantic, Memorable

  "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, (p. 167), 2004.

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• We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

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  Future, Past, Looking To The Future

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• Feeling loves a subdued light.

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  Light, Feelings, Sensibility

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• Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

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  Mean, Errors, Race

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• By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

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  Unhappy, Becoming, Sometimes

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• There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

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  Deserve, Falsehood

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• Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

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  Encounters, Faults, Insufferable

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• What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

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  Grief, Self, Resignation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 511), 1895.

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• Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

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  Love, Heart, Reflection

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• The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

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  Happiness, Art, Sick

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• Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

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  Strength, Weakness, Conflict

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• In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

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  Healthy, States, Tendencies

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• Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

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  Miracle, Coups

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• We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

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  Inspirational, Hype, Support

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• Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

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  Steps, Aging, Life Is

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• Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

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  Gratitude, Suffering, Language

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• In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

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  Retirement, Flow, Obstacles

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