Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOTVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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