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“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

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Angel Come Golden Know Life Moment Nothing Only Part Rush See Stream Vista
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
One can say everything best over a meal.
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Bst Can Everything Meal One Over Say
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.
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
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

“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.

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