Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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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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