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.
GEORGE ELIOTThere 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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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