It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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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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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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