Constance Fenimore Woolson Quotes
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a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.
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Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
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My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.
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Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?
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If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.
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It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?
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warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.
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Time is not so all-erasing as we think.
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In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars, In floating, curling sprays, The golden flower comes shining though the woods These February days; Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town, To bring her gayly in, This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida - The yellow jessamine.
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