No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay … - George Eliot

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There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

George Eliot

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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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 see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

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All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

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Owen Feltham

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