Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.George Eliot
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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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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