No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

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My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces � and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper � love her, love her, love her!

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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before - more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

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