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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

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

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOT

According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT

Agrresive Animal Ask Criticism Friend No Pass Question Such
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
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
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOT

Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
GEORGE ELIOT

Begab Face Life Love Mother Walk
Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Educate Trust Us
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
GEORGE ELIOT

Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
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
A good horse makes short miles.
GEORGE ELIOT

Good Horse Make Miles Short
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
GEORGE ELIOT

Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT

Come Forward Imagine Look never Ourselves Pass Precisely Thing Way

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