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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

George Eliot

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
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
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
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
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
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
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Comfort Feel Friendship Inexpressible Measure Neither Person Safe Weigh Word
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
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
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’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Corner Fill Got Hole Money No Pocket Use
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use

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