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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
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
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
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
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
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
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Death Kind World
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Dead Forgotten never Our Them Until
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
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
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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Better Breakfast Day Live Moment Other Time
A good horse makes short miles.
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Good Horse Make Miles Short
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
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.
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Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

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