Quote by George Eliot
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we a

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. – George Eliot

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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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I look back on my life like a good days work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. – Grandma Moses

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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. – H. L. Mencken

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Its a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise Id be a drag queen. – Dolly Parton

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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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