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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Comfort Feel Friendship Inexpressible Measure Neither Person Safe Weigh Word
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
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
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
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
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Done Forward Important Men Moving Perfect Want Work World
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Autumn Delicious Soul Very Wedded
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
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without

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