Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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