The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTRome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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