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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
A good horse makes short miles.
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Good Horse Make Miles Short
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
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
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
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
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
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Death Kind World
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
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
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

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