An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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 darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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