In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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 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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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