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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

… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
GEORGE ELIOT

Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
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
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT

Defeat Many Victory Worse
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOT

Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOT

Comfort Feel Friendship Inexpressible Measure Neither Person Safe Weigh Word
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Genius Intolerant Necessarily
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT

Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Become Could Late never Person Thought
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT

Children Know led Way
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us

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