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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

George Eliot

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
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
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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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
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
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
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
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves
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
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Children Know led Way
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
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
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
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Come Forward Imagine Look never Ourselves Pass Precisely Thing Way
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling

… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

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