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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot

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
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT

Deed Determine Much
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
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
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.
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Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
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
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT

Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
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

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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