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Quote by George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, b

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot

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Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. – George Eliot

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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. – David Hume

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I now bid farewell to the country of my birth – of my passions – of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies – whose factions I sought to quell – whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim – whose freedom has been my fatal dream. – Thomas Francis Meagher

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius

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We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. – Doug Coupland

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