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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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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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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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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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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