“When uncultured minds, confined to a narrow range of personal experience, are under the pressure of continued misfortune, their inward life is apt to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter thoughts: the same words, the same scenes are revolved over and over again, the same mood accompanies them – the end of the year finds them as much what they were at the beginning as if they were machines set to a recurrent series of movements”
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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
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“When they did meet, she remembered her promise to kiss him, but, as a young lady who had been at a boarding-school, she knew now that such a greeting was out of the question, and Philip would not expect it. The promise was void like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood: void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided, and when the starry blossoms grew side by side with the ripening peach – impossible to be fulfilled when the golden gates had been passed.”
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“The souls by nature pitch’d too high,
By suffering plung’d too low”
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By suffering plung’d too low”
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