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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Autumn Delicious Soul Very Wedded
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
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.
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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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God Great Justice Kingdome Without Yearning
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Dislike Do Like More Think What
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.
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Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
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.
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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
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
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
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make

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