Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOTWe are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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