Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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