Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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