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 To all, to each, a fair goodnight, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.  Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean. American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual. Love me, love my dog. Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. Things are beautiful if you love them. It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them. I want to see you shoot the way you shout. For greed, all nature is too little. Sweet meat must have sour sauce. As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them. Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man. There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice. The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. 
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