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Consequences are unpitying.

George Eliot

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Able Being Blind Feel Fine Painful People Sky Something Talk Thing Told
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
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
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
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
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
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
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
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
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
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too

Consequences are unpitying.

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