Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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