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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

George Eliot

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Decide Stick Think What
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
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
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Kill Once Suspicious
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
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.
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Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague

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