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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

George Eliot

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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
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
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Autumn Delicious Soul Very Wedded
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Corner Fill Got Hole Money No Pocket Use
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Common Consider Forth Hath Ignorance Knowledge Power Sentence Set
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Kill Once Suspicious
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
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

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

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