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.
GEORGE ELIOTThat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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There 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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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