A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTHuman 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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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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