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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

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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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
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
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Abstain Bless Evidence Fact Man Nothing Say Wordy
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.
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Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
Those who trust us educate us.
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Educate Trust Us
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
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Always Become Could Late never Person Thought
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Able Being Blind Feel Fine Painful People Sky Something Talk Thing Told
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Beyond Enough Grave Large Like Love Only Realism Silence
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Break Desirer Future Past Tie
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

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