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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

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
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Kill Once Suspicious
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
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.
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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
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.
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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
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
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall

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