The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTOf new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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