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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

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.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

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

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

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?