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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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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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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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 desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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