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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

George Eliot

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
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
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
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
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary 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.
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
Trouble’s made us kin.
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Made Trouble Us
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Angel Come Golden Know Life Moment Nothing Only Part Rush See Stream Vista
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.
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