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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot

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