Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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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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