People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOTIt’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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 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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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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