There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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