There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOTAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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