We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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