When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Those who trust us educate us.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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