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

George Eliot

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
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.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
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
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
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
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
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 only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul

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

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