Quote by George Eliot
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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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. – George Eliot

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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Other Quotes from
Letters (writing)
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SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal

Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. – Vaclav Havel

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An idea is salvation by imagination. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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