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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
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
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
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
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent

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