Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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