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.

GEORGE ELIOT

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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.

George Eliot

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Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.

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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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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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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Best Know One Only
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 Lie Pst Us
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Must One
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.

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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.
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Oppressive Yesterday
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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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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Brook Know Like Paas Wood
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Kingdome Without Yearning
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Desirer Tie
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Unmapped Within
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

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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 From Make
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.

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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.
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Give Plunk Sure Lose
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Intolerant Necessarily

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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