What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrentsexcept at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light - every eye looking on finds its own.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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