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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

George Eliot

“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.
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Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Chock Love Men Other Thought
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
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
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
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
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
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

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

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