Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which gre...
But oppositions have the illimitable range of objections at command, which need never stop short at the boundary of knowledge, but can draw forever on the vasts of ignorance.
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
Before such calm external beauty the presence of a vague fear is more distinctly felt - like a raven flapping its slow wing across the sunny air.
As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually in...
Are you beginning to dislike slang, then? said Rosamond, with mild gravity. Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. There is correct English: that is not slang. I beg your...
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
Also, the high standard held up to the public mind by the College of which which gave its peculiar sanction to the expensive and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and...
A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them.
A child, more than all other giftsThat earth can offer to declining man,Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts.—WORDSWORTH.
There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
Eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all we've got to do is to trusten - Master Marner, to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to tru...
You won't be giving me away, father,' she had said before they went to church; 'you'll only be taking Aaron to be a son to you.
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity