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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

George Eliot

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
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
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
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
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
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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All Deoenf Interpretation Key Know Meaning
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Break Desirer Future Past Tie
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Confidence Forward Head Hold Joyful Made Victory
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
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
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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