But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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