Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Of 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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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