Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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