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Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
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As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to "write stories." Still I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air—the indulging in waking dreams—the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents. My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
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The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me...
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what: to a supporter or a destroyer.
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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
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Posted by: Isobara Cromatica
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
from the book "" by Mary Shelley