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"I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth."

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

"There are many victories worse than a defeat."

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

"I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning."

"Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course."

"Consequences are unpitying."

"Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud."

"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."

"We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light."

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

"My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy."

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."

"If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place."

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

"Excessive literary production is a social offense."

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

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