I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTCharacter is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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