there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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