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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

~George Eliot

Topics: Dead Forgotten Never Our Them Until Us

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

~George Eliot

Topics: Afar City Funeral Gathered Hemisphere History Images Moving Past Rome Seems Strange Trophies Visible Where Whole

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

~George Eliot

Topics: Fly Our Where Wings Words Would

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Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

~George Eliot

Topics: Contemptible Could Might Would

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

~George Eliot

Topics: Affection Altogether Attachment Faults Heaven Ignorant Long Our Us

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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

~George Eliot

Topics: Ask Certainty Deed Done Great Who

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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

~George Eliot

Topics: Affect Belief Does Egoism More Our Rather Robust Satisfied Sincerity Theories Which

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

~George Eliot

Topics: Anything Detect Fold Heart Jealousy Never Satisfied Short Would

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

~George Eliot

Topics: Folks God Hand Mercy None Ourselves Over Show

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Excessive literary production is a social offense.

~George Eliot

Topics: Excessive Literary Offense Production Social

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22nd, 1819

Died: December 22nd, 1880

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