There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTThere 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 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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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