“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.