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219 Biographer Quotes

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Everything Fountain Gladness Heart
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Back Become Brothers Brothers And Sisters
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Affections History Life Life Is A
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Acting Always Being Fulfilled
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Ability Blaming Down Easiest
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age Feeling Matter Years
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Doing Greatest Growing Learning
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Above Great Great Minds Little
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They who drink beer will think beer.

Beer Drink Think Who
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Almost Create Disadvantage Every
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Between Come Empty End
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Adversity Broad Dark Daylight
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Hero His Idol Our
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age Constant Grows Never
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

About Communion Contact Dignity
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Attend Because Business Courts
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Always Among Away Clouds
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Abroad Apt Discipline Home
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Jealousy Never Regard Strong
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Back Flow Heart Lost
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Community Continually Ears Ever
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Great Great Minds Minds Others
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Dead Effect Elevate Mind
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Delights Fills Majesty Noble
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Course Effected Enemy Harm
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Age Constant Grows Never
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Gifts Good Good Nature Heaven
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Enough Little Man Nothing
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Always Am Believe How
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Enmity Felicity Marriage Strife
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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

Emotional Had You Your
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Charity Christmas Fire Flame
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

He Heart Imagination Senses
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Departing Distant Falls Friends
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

After Beauty Been Charms
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Bad Bruised Certain Change
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Approach Become Charm Distance
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Abundant Companionship Equal Good
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Doubted Eloquence Enthusiasm Indeed
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Down Fence Love Neighbor
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Biscuits Poetry Synthesis
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Baby Go God Life
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Goes Hands Language Rolls
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Asking Dance Echo Poetry
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Come Give Nobody Sometime
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Actions Doomed Equivalent Failure
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Becomes Book Dead Genius
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