What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Character 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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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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