The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Quote by George Eliot

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It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who...

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

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

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the...

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

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

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

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of...

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant...

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant...

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.