Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
GEORGE ELIOTSouls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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