Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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 don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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