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#182

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: friendship, trust

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#183

“There is no language without deceit.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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#184

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: narrow-mind, open-mindedness, perspective

854 likes

#185

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: music, poetry

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#186

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: inspirational, life, thoughtful

807 likes

#187

“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: men-women

485 likes

#188

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

490 likes

#189

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: distrust, loneliness

305 likes

#190

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: character, libel, neighbor, people, prejudice, reputation, rumor, slander, truth

225 likes

#191

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: introductions, new-beginnings

195 likes

#192

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: poet, poetry

190 likes

#193

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: anguish, despair, fulfillment, hope

303 likes

#194

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: insanity, sanity

130 likes

#195

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

115 likes

#196

“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: arrogance, humor, society

98 likes

#197

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: goals, journey, travel

3161 likes

#198

“Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.

—The Creation of Éa”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

487 likes

#199

“I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'

Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.

'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

47 likes

#200

“The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

tags: education

14 likes

#201

“The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

135 likes

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