George Eliot Quotes
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia caeli:Sedibus aetheriis spiritus ille venit.
Ovid
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
Gary Gygax
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Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.
Jack Osbourne
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Ignorant power is a bane!
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.
William Bennett
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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
Rumi
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci
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Do not dump your woes upon people - keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Elbert Hubbard
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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
