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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

George Eliot

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Able Being Blind Feel Fine Painful People Sky Something Talk Thing Told
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
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
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
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
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.
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Death Kind World
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
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
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
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
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

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