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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

George Eliot

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
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Appearances Happiness Little Very
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT

Children Know led Way
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
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
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Fly Futter None Way
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
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
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Failure Know Life One Only Possible True

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

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