Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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