I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOT“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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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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