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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

George Eliot

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
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
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
GEORGE ELIOT

Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT

Defeat Many Victory Worse
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
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Mind Narrow Point Subject Various View
A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOT

Good Horse Make Miles Short
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
GEORGE ELIOT

Empty Man No Stomach Wise
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOT

Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOT

Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday

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