Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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