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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

George Eliot

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Come Forward Imagine Look never Ourselves Pass Precisely Thing Way
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
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
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness
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
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Angel Come Golden Know Life Moment Nothing Only Part Rush See Stream Vista
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
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
One can say everything best over a meal.
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Bst Can Everything Meal One Over Say
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Beyond Enough Grave Large Like Love Only Realism Silence

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