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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

George Eliot

I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
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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Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Be Late Meant never To Too
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
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
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
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
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
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
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
GEORGE ELIOT

Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
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
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
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

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