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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
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
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.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Decide Stick Think What
Trouble’s made us kin.
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Made Trouble Us
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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