When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOTHold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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