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Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.


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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.



The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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