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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

George Eliot

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
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
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
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
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
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Genius Intolerant Necessarily
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
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
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
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
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness

Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

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