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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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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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There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
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It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
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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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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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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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What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
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It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
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The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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