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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
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The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
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To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
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Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
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There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.
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The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself it only requires opportunity.
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That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
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Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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