It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
Quote by George Eliot
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?