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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We read more
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
