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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

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
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
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
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
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
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
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
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.
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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View
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
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
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.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable

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