The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
GEORGE ELIOTAnd, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Those who trust us educate us.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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