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Particular lies may speak a general truth.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
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Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
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Better a false belief than no belief at all.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.
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Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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