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.
GEORGE ELIOTConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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