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

George Eliot

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
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
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
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Kill Once Suspicious
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
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
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
One can say everything best over a meal.
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Bst Can Everything Meal One Over Say
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Fly Futter None Way
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
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.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
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
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.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
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
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Begab Face Life Love Mother Walk
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT

Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out

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

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