To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTIt seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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