In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOTThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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