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.
GEORGE ELIOTAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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