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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
GEORGE ELIOT

Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOT

Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOT

Empty Man No Stomach Wise
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
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
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
GEORGE ELIOT

Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
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 love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chock Love Men Other Thought
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
GEORGE ELIOT

Begab Face Life Love Mother Walk
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine

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