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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.

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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.


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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.

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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

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Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

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Terror made me cruel.

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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.