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Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention. - [Government] God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none. - [Man] It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - [History : Literature] Not much talk--a great, sweet silence. - A Bundle of Letters (letter IV) [Silence] He was worse than provincial--he was parochial. - Of Thoreau--A Critical Life of Hawthorne [Character] There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and taste for emotions of recognition. - Partial Portraits (On Trollope) [Taste] Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconnected. - The Ambassadors [Books (First Lines)] On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. - The American [Books (First Lines)] Save when it happened to rain Vanderbank always walked home, but he usually took a hansom when the rain was moderate and adopted the preference of the philosopher when it was heavy. On this occasion he therefore recognized, as the servant opened the door, a congruity between the weather and the 'four-wheeler' that, in the empty street, under the glazed radiance, waited and trickled and blackly glittered. - The Awkward Age (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that." - The Bostonians [Books (First Lines)] The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. - The Golden Bowl [Books (First Lines)] "No, my lord," Banks had replied, "no stranger has yet arrived. But I'll see if any one has come in--or who has." - The Outcry [Books (First Lines)] Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. - The Portrait of a Lady [Books (First Lines)] "Oh yes, I daresay I can find the child, if you would like to see him," Miss Pynsent said; she had a fluttering wish to assent to every suggestion made by her visitor, whom she regarded as a high and rather terrible personage. - The Princess Casamassima [Books (First Lines)] She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. - The Wings of the Dove [Books (First Lines)]
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