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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

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOT

Comfort Feel Friendship Inexpressible Measure Neither Person Safe Weigh Word
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT

More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
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
Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOT

Consequences Unpitying
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Confidence Forward Head Hold Joyful Made Victory
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fly Futter None Way
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
GEORGE ELIOT

Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth

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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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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