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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

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Corner Fill Got Hole Money No Pocket Use
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.
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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
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.
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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
“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.
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Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
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
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
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
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
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

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