What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTIf 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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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