A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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