It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Quote by George Eliot

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us...

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest...

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing...

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have...

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe,...

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe,...

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small...

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small...