One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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