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Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
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Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
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Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
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The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
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Say I love you to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
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A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
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Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
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The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
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... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
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Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
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