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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

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
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
GEORGE ELIOT

Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Become Could Late never Person Thought
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOT

Death Kind World
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
GEORGE ELIOT

Apt Conscientious Course Duty Most Painful People See Which
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOT

Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
“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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Echo Live Perpetual Soul
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT

Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
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
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
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

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.

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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.

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