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There are many victories worse than a defeat.

George Eliot

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
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOT

Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
GEORGE ELIOT

Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
GEORGE ELIOT

Begab Face Life Love Mother 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
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
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
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
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
GEORGE ELIOT

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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine

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