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Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
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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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I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
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