We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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