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| Charles Reade
A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection.A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor. About the middle of the last century, at eight o'clock in the evening, in a large but poor apartment, a man was slumbering on a rough couch. His rusty and worn suit of black was of a piece with his uncarpeted room, the deal table of home manufacture, and its slim unsnuffed candle.
And this is the course of Nature: there is nothing like suffering to enlighten the giddy brain, widen the narrow mind, improve the trivial heart.
Art is not imitation, but illusion.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Example is contagious behavior.
George Fielding cultivated a small farm in Berkshire.
I have found the saying of the ancients true, that better is a bright comrade on a weary road than a horselitter.
In a snowy villa, with a sloping lawn, just outside the great commercial seaport, Barkington, there live a few years ago a happy family. A lady, middle-aged, but still charming, two young friends of hers, and a periodical visitor.
The lady was Mrs. Dodd; her occasional visitor was her husband; her friends were her son Edward, aged twenty, and her daughter Julia, nineteen; the fruit of a misalliance.
Judicious absence is a weapon. Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.Necessity is the only successful adviser.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. Sow an act and you reao a habit. Sow a habit and you reap character. Sow character and you reap destiny. Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is like us--he is thinking of himself.
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