It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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