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

George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Beyond Enough Grave Large Like Love Only Realism Silence
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
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
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
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
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.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
After all, the true seeing is within.
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After Seeing True Withing
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
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
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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All Deoenf Interpretation Key Know Meaning
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
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
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Children Know led Way
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word

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