British - Politician | November 23, 1862 - September 6, 1932
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
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Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
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There is no influence like the influence of habit.
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It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
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The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
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She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
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Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
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