All Quotes · Page 190
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“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”
“Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.”
“Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind deeds.”
“To children is there any happiness which is not also noise?”
“A spiritual life without a very large allowance of disquietude in it is no spiritual life at all.”
“I find great numbers of moderately good people who think it fine to take scandal.”
“The hardest thing in the world is to think, that is, to think real thought.”
“Methinks adieu / Is cold, when uttered with aught else but tears.”
“It was not song that taught me love, / But it was love that taught me song.”
“So much to win, so much to lose, / No marvel that I fear to choose.”
“Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare, / However pure the breast, to lay it bare?”
“Gratitude and Vanity are the nurses that rock the cradle of Love.”
“Ah! love and song are but a dream, / A flower's faint shade on life's dark stream.”
“For human tears are lava-drops, / That scorch and wither as they flow;”