"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

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"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."

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"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."

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"Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness."

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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

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"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

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"It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite."

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"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 ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."

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"Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."

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"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."

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