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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.

George Eliot

It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOT

Corner Fill Got Hole Money No Pocket Use
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT

Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOT

Good Horse Make Miles Short
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
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
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
Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT

God Great Justice Kingdome Without Yearning
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Decide Stick Think What
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
Trouble’s made us kin.
GEORGE ELIOT

Made Trouble Us
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent

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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