Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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