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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
GEORGE ELIOT

Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
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
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
GEORGE ELIOT

Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
GEORGE ELIOT

Children Know led Way
Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOT

Consequences Unpitying
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
GEORGE ELIOT

Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Echo Live Perpetual Soul

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

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