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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
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
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
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
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Decide Stick Think What
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
GEORGE ELIOT

Analoufge Call Dubious Egg Full Handsome Hopeful Possibilities World
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
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
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOT

Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
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
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
GEORGE ELIOT

Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told

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