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.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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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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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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