The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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