Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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The 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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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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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