#ktreads

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Friendship, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For this I do tremble and start when the rose on the vine taps my shoulder; For this when the storm beats me down, my soul groweth bolder and bolder.

Enfoldings, Mary Mapes Dodge

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But dare we be candid? How few have the resolution to chronicle their faults and failings! And how many shrink from making a public display of their miserable experiences, after a deliverance from danger, owing to a fear of being accused of glorying in their past shame, and of exhibiting 'the pride that apes humanity'.

Passages From The History Of A Wasted Life