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Quote by George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tender

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. – George Eliot

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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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A friend who dies, its something of you who dies. – Gustave Flaubert

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. – Ernst Moritz Arndt

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