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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.

George Eliot

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOT

Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
GEORGE ELIOT

God Great Justice Kingdome Without Yearning
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOT

Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOT

Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOT

Adventure Man Outside Within
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOT

Empty Man No Stomach Wise
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOT

Analoufge Call Dubious Egg Full Handsome Hopeful Possibilities 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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