We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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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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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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.
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