Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above, those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
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