George Eliot Quotes
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Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
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Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
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Things are achieved when they are well begun.
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Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
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Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
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I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
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Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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Joy is the best of wine.