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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

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
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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Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Decide Stick Think What
Trouble’s made us kin.
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Made Trouble Us
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
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.
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Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
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.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
A good horse makes short miles.
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Good Horse Make Miles Short
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
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

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