Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
GEORGE ELIOTWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
More George Eliot Quotes
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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“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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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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