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I had some fear _or hope_ that here I should die; but I was soon up, crawling forwards on my hands and knees, and then again raised to my feet__as eager and as determined as ever to reach the road.

Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour, stringent are tgey; inviolate they shall be.

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.

The passions may rage furiously , like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pss by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

I can live alone, if self-respect and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despisd.

eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see these minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time. An aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy; its after flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.