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

George Eliot

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOT

Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
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
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT

Deed Determine Much
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Always Become Could Late never Person Thought
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Done Forward Important Men Moving Perfect Want Work World
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Dislike Do Like More Think What
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Echo Live Perpetual Soul
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bash Burning God Make Presence Through

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

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