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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

George Eliot

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.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Done Forward Important Men Moving Perfect Want Work World
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.
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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Death Kind World
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

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