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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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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
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Better a false belief than no belief at all.
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I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Human experience is usually paradoxical.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
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When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
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Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
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The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings it will have the soul all to itself.
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
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