Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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 finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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