I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTMy 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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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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