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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

George Eliot

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
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
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
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
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Come Forward Imagine Look never Ourselves Pass Precisely Thing Way
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
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
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.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
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
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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