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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

George Eliot

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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All Deoenf Interpretation Key Know Meaning
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
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Behold Clearness Common Enshrouldm Other Envelop Mist Ourselves Seem Walk
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 Failure Know Life One Only Possible True
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Apt Conscientious Course Duty Most Painful People See Which
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
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
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
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.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Act Feel Know More People Us Want
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone
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
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
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
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Bash Burning God Make Presence Through
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
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
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Consequence Men Outlive Recklessness
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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Come Earth Great never Repent Severity Tenderness
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want

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