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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

George Eliot

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOT

Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT

Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT

More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year

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