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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
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The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
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The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.
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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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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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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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It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.
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It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
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You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.
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Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
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