Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTDeath is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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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.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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