It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOTYour 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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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