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"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
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"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
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Personal Development

"Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope."
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"I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go."
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"Though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert."
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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
Happiness

"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
Religion

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
Pretty

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
Habit

"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
Appearance

"It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it."
Nature

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
Thought

"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
Heart

"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
Freedom

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
Beauty
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