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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; b

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

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The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. – Joseph Collins

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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. – Roger Ebert

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…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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And I am glad to see, that you have also put to flight the gloomy thoughts which used to haunt you. I like to see people cheerful and happy. What is the use of giving way to sadness in this beautiful world? – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, A Romance, “The Evening and the Morning St

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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran

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