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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Common Consider Forth Hath Ignorance Knowledge Power Sentence Set
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
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.
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Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Begab Face Life Love Mother Walk
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
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
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World

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