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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
GEORGE ELIOT

Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
GEORGE ELIOT

Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Best Fireside Imagination Memory Own Takemone Travel
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Kill Once Suspicious
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man No Stomach Wise
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
GEORGE ELIOT

Enough Glance Hand Heartym Shake Kind Near Now Pleasant Then Word
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
GEORGE ELIOT

Butterfly Dubious Expectation Futtered Incessantly Little Memory Soul
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Air Conviction Deliver Founded Knowledge Mere Opinion Stupidity Well

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

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