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Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social
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Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.
"I think she is," said Celia, feeling afraid lest she should say something that would not please her sister, and blushing as prettily as possible above her necklace. "She likes giving up."
He was made of excellent human dough, and had the rare merit of knowing that his talents, even if let loose, would not set the smallest stream in the county on fire:
ill-shod but merry children.
severe mental scamper
whose opinion was forming itself that very moment (as opinions will) under the heat of irritation.
Who can tell what just criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wider speculation?
He did not usually find it easy to give his reasons: it seemed to him strange that people should not know them without being told, since he only felt what was reasonable.
Mr. Lydgate had the medical accomplishment of looking perfectly grave whatever nonsense was talked to him,
There was occasionally a little fierceness in his demeanor, but it was directed chiefly against false opinion, of which there is so much to correct in the world that a man of some reading and experience necessarily has his patience tried.
