There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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