And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTMuch of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Will 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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