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.
GEORGE ELIOTAny 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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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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