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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! I

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice… – George Eliot

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. – George Eliot

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No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning. – American Indian Proverb

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No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow. – African Proverb

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