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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT

More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT

Kill Once Suspicious
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOT

Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT

Abstain Bless Evidence Fact Man Nothing Say Wordy
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
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
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
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT

Children Know led Way
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fly Futter None Way
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth

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