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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

George Eliot

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
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
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
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.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Genius Intolerant Necessarily
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Choice Growth Human Lie Principle Strongest
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Confidence Forward Head Hold Joyful Made Victory
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.
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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
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
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
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.
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Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

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