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

George Eliot

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Done Forward Important Men Moving Perfect Want Work World
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
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Chock Love Men Other Thought
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
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
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
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
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Common Consider Forth Hath Ignorance Knowledge Power Sentence Set
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
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Begab Face Life Love Mother Walk
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

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

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