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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
