"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."
― George Eliot
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Death
― George Eliot
More From George Eliot
- "We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves."
- "The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."
- "When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
More In Death
- "Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart."― Tecumseh
- "On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death."― Tammy Bruce