Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTThat 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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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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 one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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