Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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It 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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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