There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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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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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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A good horse makes short miles.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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