Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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