And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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