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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.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Consequences are unpitying.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Our God is a forgiving God.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Losing is tough.