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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

George Eliot

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Autumn Delicious Soul Very Wedded
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
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
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
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
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
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
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Abstain Bless Evidence Fact Man Nothing Say Wordy
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
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

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