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4996693
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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source-unknown
inspirational
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George Eliot |
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cf0f6f2
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
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inspirational
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George Eliot |
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a0c8216
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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silence
remaining-silent
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George Eliot |
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3d83f3a
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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open-mindedness
perspective
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George Eliot |
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c78a487
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What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
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marriage
sorrow
relationship
death
sadness
love
fellowship
memory
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George Eliot |
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d0f5cfe
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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life
inspirational
thoughtful
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George Eliot |
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8bf6f8b
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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
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poetry
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George Eliot |
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62239c4
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O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...
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poetry
rectitude
minds
invisible
dead
memory
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George Eliot |
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19f28d1
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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George Eliot |
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3ee154f
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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George Eliot |
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fac0c62
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts-- not to hurt others."
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George Eliot |
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a83acf2
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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music
power-of-music
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George Eliot |
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2fb6728
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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temptation
repentance
sin
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George Eliot |
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db20dec
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded t..
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seasons
nature
fall
weather
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George Eliot |
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f733c56
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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loneliness
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George Eliot |
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60a9953
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Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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criticisms
true-friends
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George Eliot |
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5c42fb4
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I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
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words
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George Eliot |
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dee21c6
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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George Eliot |
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3ed3d75
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And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
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human-nature
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George Eliot |
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ba4c55e
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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hope
fulfillment
despair
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George Eliot |
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2b65e18
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Don't judge a book by its cover
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cover
judge
mystery
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George Eliot |
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b8b8363
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People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
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prejudice
people
truth
rumor
libel
reputation
neighbor
slander
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George Eliot |
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25c5424
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One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
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new-beginnings
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George Eliot |
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9ca56a3
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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
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poetry
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George Eliot |
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6cc2ffb
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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past
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George Eliot |
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c5abd20
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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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George Eliot |
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d2c9229
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
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George Eliot |
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a95ebd1
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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George Eliot |
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f11e957
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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
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world
life
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George Eliot |
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4e88dcd
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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
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poetry
knowledge
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George Eliot |
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422a173
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If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.
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George Eliot |
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61dd709
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
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joy
sacrifice
love
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George Eliot |
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437bfc4
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That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded wit..
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George Eliot |
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15b0a10
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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George Eliot |
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3954f1f
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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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sanity
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George Eliot |
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a31886f
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Those who trust us educate us.
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trust
education
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George Eliot |
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e4d1fc0
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid..
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passion
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George Eliot |
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81775b4
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The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
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irresponsible
liars
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George Eliot |
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ef002ad
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No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
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pain
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George Eliot |
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92bb2e2
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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that--if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is--I wou..
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work
enthusiasm
job
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George Eliot |
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f60188a
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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George Eliot |
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1cd2022
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Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
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George Eliot |
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da382cd
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Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
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George Eliot |
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4735a56
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Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
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society
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George Eliot |