Human 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.
GEORGE ELIOTLove has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The 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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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