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• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
  -- Helen Kelle...
• Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts?
  Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? Or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life, that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing there remains but souls?...
• The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 244...
• Ah! the youngest heart has the same waves within it as the olde
  but without the plummet which can measure the depths. -- Richte...
• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
  -- Richte...
• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
  Jean Paul Richte...
• Time is the chrysalis of eternity. -- Richte
• SMILEY :-# my lips are sealed
• SMILEY :X lips are sealed