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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

George Eliot

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOT

Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
GEORGE ELIOT

Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Deoenf Interpretation Key Know Meaning
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fly Futter None Way
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT

Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOT

Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOT

Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOT

Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
GEORGE ELIOT

Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT

Deed Determine Much
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT

Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

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