Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
("Silas Marner")
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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. . . people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
George Eliot
So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing a beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.
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It is never too late to become what you might have been
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