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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Evil
George Eliot

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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Martyrdom
George Eliot

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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Deeds and Good Deeds
George Eliot

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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
Impartiality
George Eliot

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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Wit
George Eliot

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Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
Prophecy
George Eliot

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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Professions and Professionals
George Eliot

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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Conquest
George Eliot

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Perfection
George Eliot

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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Pride
George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Vanity
George Eliot

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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Life and Living
George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Death and Dying
George Eliot

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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
Forgiveness
George Eliot

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
Tradition
T. S. Eliot

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Arts and Artists
T. S. Eliot

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
Words
T. S. Eliot

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
Friends and Friendship
T. S. Eliot

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Communication
T. S. Eliot

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Futility
T. S. Eliot

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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
Editing and Editors
T. S. Eliot

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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
Tradition
T. S. Eliot

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
Rebellion
T. S. Eliot

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Love
T. S. Eliot

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Past
T. S. Eliot

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun