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It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
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There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
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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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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
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When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.
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I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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