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George Eliot

"The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere."

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"The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere."

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

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"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

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"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."

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"Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice."

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"You should not honor men more than truth."

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"All humans are rogues. Cured only by death."

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"So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel."

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"Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end."

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"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

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"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."
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"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."
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"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
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"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."
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"What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?"
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