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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

George Eliot

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
GEORGE ELIOT

Fly Futter None Way
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Bind Duty Lie Pst Us

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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