A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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