The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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