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"The bashful are always aggressive at heart."
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"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."

"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."

"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."

"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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