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

George Eliot

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
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
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
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
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
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.
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Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
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
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want

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