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The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.
Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
In every parting there is an image of death.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Things are achieved when they are well begun.
Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.
It is never too late to be who you want to be.
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
She hates everything that is not what she longs for.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.