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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
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
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
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
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 don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOT

Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
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
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
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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Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Fly Futter None 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
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Comfort Feel Friendship Inexpressible Measure Neither Person Safe Weigh Word
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
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Genius Intolerant Necessarily
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
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.
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Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing

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