Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The 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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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