What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOTWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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