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.
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to 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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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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“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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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