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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Fly Futter None Way
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
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
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
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
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
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
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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All Deoenf Interpretation Key Know Meaning
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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