Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
タグ: happiness

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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
タグ: i-am, age, faith, life
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
タグ: debt, someone, pain, fear
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
タグ: women
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog, child, or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
タグ: self-control
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
タグ: ignorance
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