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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

George Eliot

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Genius Intolerant Necessarily
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Chock Love Men Other Thought
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
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.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
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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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder

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