In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOTThese gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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