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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Agrresive Animal Ask Criticism Friend No Pass Question Such
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
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.
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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Break Desirer Future Past Tie
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
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Children Know led Way
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.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
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
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.
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Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
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

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