Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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