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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

George Eliot

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
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
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
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Kill Once Suspicious
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Abstain Bless Evidence Fact Man Nothing Say Wordy
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.
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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
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
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
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

… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

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