Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOTBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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