It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOTThe thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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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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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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