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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

George Eliot

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.
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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
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.
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Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
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
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.
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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Apt Conscientious Course Duty Most Painful People See Which
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
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.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday

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