It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
GEORGE ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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What 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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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