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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

George Eliot

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
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
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Death Kind World
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Able Being Blind Feel Fine Painful People Sky Something Talk Thing Told
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.
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Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
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
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Done Forward Important Men Moving Perfect Want Work World
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
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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Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
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
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul

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