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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

George Eliot

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
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Children Know led Way
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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God Great Justice Kingdome Without Yearning
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.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes

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