I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOTThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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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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