What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTOf new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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