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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

George Eliot

I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Dislike Do Like More Think What
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
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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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Friend Scowl Smile Wear Wrinkle
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Common Consider Forth Hath Ignorance Knowledge Power Sentence Set
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.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Chock Love Men Other Thought
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT

Agrresive Animal Ask Criticism Friend No Pass Question Such
I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

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