Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTAppearances have very little to do with happiness.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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