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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.

George Eliot

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
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Angel Come Golden Know Life Moment Nothing Only Part Rush See Stream Vista
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Break Desirer Future Past Tie
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
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

Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
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
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOT

Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
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
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Common Consider Forth Hath Ignorance Knowledge Power Sentence Set
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Analoufge Call Dubious Egg Full Handsome Hopeful Possibilities World
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOT

Consequences Unpitying

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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