What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOTWe 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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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