Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will. -George Eliot

 

Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.


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

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

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Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

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But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

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