An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOTThe darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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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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