Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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.
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
Effective magic is transcendent nature.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
Correct English is the slang of prigs.
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
A good horse makes short miles.
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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