Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
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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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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.
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A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
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