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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

George Eliot

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
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
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
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
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOT

According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT

Kill Once Suspicious
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Appearances Happiness Little Very
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT

Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
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
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT

Come Forward Imagine Look never Ourselves Pass Precisely Thing Way

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