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"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
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"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
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Personal Development
"I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship
"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
Wisdom
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."
Behavior
"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."
Mythology
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
Man
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
Love
"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."
Emotional
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
Love
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
History
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