I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
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E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
To bid affection live.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to read more

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?

Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What read more

We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be read more

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.