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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

George Eliot

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
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
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
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.
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Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
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
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Fly Futter None Way
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
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use

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