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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

George Eliot

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
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
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
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.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
Trouble’s made us kin.
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Made Trouble Us
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
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

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

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