When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
GEORGE ELIOT
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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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.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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