British - Author | November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
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.
George Eliot
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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