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.
GEORGE ELIOT
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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.
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