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"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."

"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."

"They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind."

"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."

"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."

"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
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"It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us."

"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."

"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."

"Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean."
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