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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
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
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
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Beyond Enough Grave Large Like Love Only Realism Silence
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
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Chock Love Men Other Thought
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
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.
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Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
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
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
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
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow

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