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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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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
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... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
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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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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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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