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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.

George Eliot

Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
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
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
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
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
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
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
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
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
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder

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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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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