Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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