Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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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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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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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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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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