What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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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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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 influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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