In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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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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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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