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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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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot

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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. – J. B. Priestley

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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