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

George Eliot

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
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
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
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
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
One can say everything best over a meal.
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Bst Can Everything Meal One Over Say
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
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
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star

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

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