“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: death
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An election is coming. Universal peace is
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: peace
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: failure
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More helpful than all wisdom is one
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: wisdom
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I should like to know what is
“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: women
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Great things are not done by impulse,
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: great
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Our dead are never dead to us,
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: death
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There is only one failure in life
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
Category: failure
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