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.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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