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Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
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There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
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It is very difficult to be learned it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
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When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .
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Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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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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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
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... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
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Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
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I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
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There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
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Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
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