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.
GEORGE ELIOTIf 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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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