Date: 1860
"There were passions at war in Maggie at that moment to have made a tragedy, if tragedies were made by passion only, but the essential ti megethos which was present in the passion, was wanting to the action; the utmost Maggie could do, with a fierce thrust of her small brown arm, was to pu...
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Date: 1860
"While Maggie's life-struggles had lain almost entirely within her own soul, one shadowy army fighting another, and the slain shadows for ever rising again, Tom was engaged in a dustier, noisier warfare, grappling with more substantial obstacles, and gaining more definite conquests."
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Date: 1860
"What you call self-conquest -- blinding and deafening yourself to all but one train of impressions, is only the culture of monomania in a nature like yours."
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Date: 1860
"Yes! I have had feelings to struggle with - but I conquered them."
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Date: 1890
"To fight aloud is very brave, / But gallanter, I know, / Who charge within the bosom, / The cavalry of woe."
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