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

George Eliot

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Either Family Idiot Troublesome Usually Visit
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
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
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
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.
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Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
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.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach

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