Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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