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“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”

George Eliot · Experience

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George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Death

George Eliot

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

God

George Eliot

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Faith

George Eliot

A woman's 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.

Happiness