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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
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Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.
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O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.
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A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.
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It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
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The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
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I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself it only requires opportunity.
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
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We cannot reform our forefathers.
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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
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No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
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Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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