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A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. - [Delicacy] A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within? - [Face] A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful. - [Mountains] A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills; to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. - [Love] A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. - [Hope] Affection is the broadest basis of good in life. - [Affection] As leopard feels at home with leopard. - [Proverbial Phrases] As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier, who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in; hears plainly enough the word of command which he must himself obey. - [Duty] As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church-steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. - [Gossip] Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries. - [Night] Breed is stronger than pasture. - [Ancestry] But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment. - [Fidelity] Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother. - [Destiny : Duty] Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. - [Character] Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety. - [Conscience] Cruelty, like every, other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. - [Cruelty] Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - [Inspiration] Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. - [Falsehood] Hate is like fire; it makes even light robbish deadly. - [Hate] How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience. - [Obedience] I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. - [Flowers] I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God. - [Peace : Sin] I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone. - [Courage] I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left. - [Flowers] I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. - [Experience] Displaying page 1 of 8 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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