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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
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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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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People 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 one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Break Desirer Future Past Tie

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