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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

George Eliot

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOT

Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dislike Do Like More Think What
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beyond Enough Grave Large Like Love Only Realism Silence
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Become Could Late never Person Thought
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOT

Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

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