A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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