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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.

George Eliot

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOT

Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
GEORGE ELIOT

Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Deoenf Interpretation Key Know Meaning
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
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

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT

Children Know led Way
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT

Defeat Many Victory Worse
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
GEORGE ELIOT

Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT

Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest

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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