It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOTHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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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 are many victories worse than a defeat.
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What 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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