The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOTTrouble’s made us kin.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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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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Love 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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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