Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOTthere are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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