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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

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

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.