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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.

George Eliot

I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dislike Do Like More Think What
Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT

God Great Justice Kingdome Without Yearning
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT

Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
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
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
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
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
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOT

Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOT

Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT

Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOT

Empty Man No Stomach Wise

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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