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.
GEORGE ELIOTAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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