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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

… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
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
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 golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Angel Come Golden Know Life Moment Nothing Only Part Rush See Stream Vista
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
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
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
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.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
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
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
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation

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