When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOTPeople who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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