Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOTMen outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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