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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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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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Letters (writing)
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George Eliot
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A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. – George Eliot

Category:
Happiness
Author
George Eliot
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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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Stubbornness
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George Eliot
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Theres stuff I dont like to rehearse, really emotional things, I dont like to rehearse. You just beat it to death. – Kat Dennings

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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after hes dead, then maybe he was a great man. – James Dean

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Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I cant help but cry. I mean Id love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. – Mariah Carey

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If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. – Eric Cantona

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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

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