Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTExamining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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