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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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

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

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

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

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.

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.

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