There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT“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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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 think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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