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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure

George Eliot

I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dislike Do Like More Think What
It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOT

Corner Fill Got Hole Money No Pocket Use
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOT

Lies Responsible Tolerance Vision Wider
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Genius Intolerant Necessarily
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT

Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Death Kind World
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
GEORGE ELIOT

Break Desirer Future Past Tie
“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

Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT

Distrust Loneliness Lonely More

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure

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