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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

The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
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.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
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.
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Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Bind Duty Lie Pst Us

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.

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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.

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