Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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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.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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