What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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