Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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