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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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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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