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.
GEORGE ELIOT
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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