The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople 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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“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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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