Countable subset of a Hilbert space generates a separable Hilbert subspace

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If $G$ is an arbitrary countable subset of a Hilbert space $H$ (over complex numbers), does $G$ somehow generate a separable Hilbert subspace? Preferably having $G$ as a countable dense subset? If so, what exactly is the procedure? If the claim is not true, what would be the counterexample?

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The closure of the span of $G$ would be a separable Hilbert space. It is unlikely that $G$ is in fact a countable dense subset of this space, however. For a simple counterexample, consider the sequence space $\ell_2$. This is generated by the standard basis vectors (which is a countable set), but these are clearly not dense in $\ell_2$. However, the set of linear combinations of elements of $G$ with coefficients in $\mathbb{Q}(i)$ is a countable dense subset.