These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOTAny coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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 a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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