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.
GEORGE ELIOTNo man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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.
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