There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

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He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

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

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

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Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

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Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

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