Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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