It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Quote by George Eliot

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Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns...

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

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...

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...

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequences are unpitying.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

Instead of focusing on all the bad, be thankful for all the good. Each day...

Instead of focusing on all the bad, be thankful for all the good. Each day...

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only...

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only...