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.
GEORGE ELIOTOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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