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 ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s 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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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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