Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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That 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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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