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- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
- A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
- There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
- Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
- People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
- There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.