The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
From George Eliot
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
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.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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