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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOT

Empty Man No Stomach Wise
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Agrresive Animal Ask Criticism Friend No Pass Question Such
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT

Children Know led Way
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOT

Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
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
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
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dreary Life Make Motive Want

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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