When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOTWe could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Consequences are unpitying.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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