It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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