Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Confidence is the best proof of love.
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.
It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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