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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

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To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

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But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

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Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

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