“In every parting there is an image of death.”
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.