When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOTEnveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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