Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTDecide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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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.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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