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There are many victories worse than a defeat.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.