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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Begab Face Life Love Mother Walk
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View
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
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Apt Conscientious Course Duty Most Painful People See Which
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
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Analoufge Call Dubious Egg Full Handsome Hopeful Possibilities World
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
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing

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