What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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