Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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