Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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