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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

George Eliot

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOT

Apt Conscientious Course Duty Most Painful People See Which
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT

Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
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
Trouble’s made us kin.
GEORGE ELIOT

Made Trouble Us
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
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

Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chock Love Men Other Thought
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
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
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
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Genius Intolerant Necessarily
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOT

Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
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

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

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