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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

George Eliot

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Confidence Forward Head Hold Joyful Made Victory
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOT

Death Kind World
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Appearances Happiness Little Very
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Common Consider Forth Hath Ignorance Knowledge Power Sentence Set
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
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
GEORGE ELIOT

City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOT

Consequences Unpitying
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
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT

Kill Once Suspicious

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