Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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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 think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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