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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

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOT

Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
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
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
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
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.
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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Comfort Feel Friendship Inexpressible Measure Neither Person Safe Weigh Word
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
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
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
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.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Chock Love Men Other Thought
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year

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