To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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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.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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If 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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Those who trust us educate us.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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