Top 29 E.D.E.N. Southworth Quotes
#1. But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"
"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.
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#3. I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!
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#4. The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.
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#5. Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food. There are slow starvations and divers ones. - Doctor Day
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#7. Now, the soul of Capitola naturally abhorred sentiment. If ever she gave way to serious emotion, she was sure to avenge herself by being more capricious than before.
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#9. The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite.
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#10. Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
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#11. There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.
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#12. Go! Go! Go! Go!' said that officer, with an expression as though he considered our Cap an individual of the animal kingdom whom neither Buffon nor any other natural philosopher had ever classified, and who, as a creature of unknown habits, might sometimes be dangerous.
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#14. Ah, it is impossible."
"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
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#15. Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
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#16. The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder at and admire beauty, without being in the least danger of having his peace of mind disturbed by love.
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#17. I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.
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#19. Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that.
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#20. There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.
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#22. Ah! The transitory joy of the past week had been but the lightning's arrowy course scathing where it illumined!
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#23. You don't like this quite country life?" inquired Mrs. Condiment.
"No; no better than I do a quiet country grave-yard. I don't want to return to dust before my time, I tell you," said Cap, yawning dismally over her work.
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#24. There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.
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#25. It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!
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#27. Big streams from little fountains flow. Great oaks from little acorns grow;
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#29. Be silent!" shrieked the beldame.
"I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!
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