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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.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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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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It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
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It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.
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But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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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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Quarrel? Nonsense we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
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Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
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