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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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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

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Death always comes too early or too late. – English Proverb

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. – Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death

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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. – Amelia Barr

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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. – Mahatma Gandhi

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