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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.

George Eliot

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
One can say everything best over a meal.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bst Can Everything Meal One Over Say
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.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Trouble’s made us kin.
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Made Trouble Us
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT

God Great Justice Kingdome Without Yearning
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dislike Do Like More Think What
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOT

Apt Conscientious Course Duty Most Painful People See Which

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