“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”
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“A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.”
“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”
“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
“The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.”
“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”