Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
From Laurence Sterne
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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