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- I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
- I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge:…
- It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
- I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
- You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from…
- Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is…
- Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a…
- To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view…
- Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not…
- I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home,…
- Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we…
- 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…
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
- You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
- All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
- Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
- Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
- And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
- That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part…
- Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that…
- Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -…
- Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of…
- You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
- But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
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