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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings it will have the soul all to itself.
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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
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We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
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Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
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When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
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The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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