It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOTLove has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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