No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte
happiness world sounds mockery
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
human feeling judgement bitter
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
forward
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
time gift writer creative works
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
education heart grow difficult soil
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it.
action human vain find
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it
action human vain tranquility find
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
religion morality
Conventionality is not morality.
morality
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same
death feel deathanddying
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
true feeling enthusiasm
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation
life events expectation
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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