What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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