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

George Eliot

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
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
“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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOT

Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
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
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
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
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
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
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOT

Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conscience Enemy Harder

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

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