Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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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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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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