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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

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...

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

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...

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

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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.