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Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

Never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.

It does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port
heaven,
Friend, what years could us divide?

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

Alack, this world
Is full of change, change, change
nothing but change!

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind
and that is as much in our hands as theirs
is the right of having something to do.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

There is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

We are so scornful when we are young!

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest,
When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

Autumn
Into earth's lap does throw
Brown apples gay in a game of play,
As the equinoctials blow.

Our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

To-morrow is ah, whose?

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

There was never a night that had no morn.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

It is the Christmas time:
And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
The shining angels climb.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.