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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.

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dreary Life Make Motive Want
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOT

Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOT

Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
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
It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOT

Corner Fill Got Hole Money No Pocket Use
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
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOT

Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
GEORGE ELIOT

Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT

More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want

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