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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

George Eliot

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
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
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
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
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
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
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
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Agrresive Animal Ask Criticism Friend No Pass Question Such
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
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
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 a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View

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