Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat 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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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 troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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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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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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