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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

Those who trust us educate us.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.