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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality
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In the course of time, we grow to love things we hated and hate things we loved.
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Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance.
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Noble disappointment, noble self-denial, are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness.
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It never seems to them that they have served enough; they have a fine impatience of their virtues.
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All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.