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 ELIOTSouls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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