Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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