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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

George Eliot

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fly Futter None Way
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOT

Empty Man No Stomach Wise
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
GEORGE ELIOT

Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOT

Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
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
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Be Late Meant never To Too
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Appearances Happiness Little Very
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOT

Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
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
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
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
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
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT

Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
GEORGE ELIOT

Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chock Love Men Other Thought
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
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
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
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Educate Trust Us
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOT

Adventure Man Outside Within
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOT

Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Sure Win

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