When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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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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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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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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