Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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